scrapy-item-ingest 0.2.4

Scrapy extension for database ingestion with job/spider tracking

Scrapy Item Ingest

A tiny, straightforward addon for Scrapy that saves your items, requests, and logs to PostgreSQL. No boilerplate, no ceremony.

Install

pip install scrapy-item-ingest

Minimal setup (settings.py)

ITEM_PIPELINES = {
    'scrapy_item_ingest.DbInsertPipeline': 300,
}

EXTENSIONS = {
    'scrapy_item_ingest.LoggingExtension': 500,
}

# Pick ONE of the two database config styles:
DB_URL = "postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/database"
# Or use discrete fields (avoids URL encoding):
# DB_HOST = "localhost"
# DB_PORT = 5432
# DB_USER = "user"
# DB_PASSWORD = "password"
# DB_NAME = "database"

# Optional
CREATE_TABLES = True     # auto‑create tables on first run (default True)
JOB_ID = 1               # or omit; spider name will be used

Run your spider:

scrapy crawl your_spider

Troubleshooting

• Password has special characters like @ or $?
  • In a URL, encode them: @ -> %40, $ -> %24.
  • Example: postgresql://user:PAK%40swat1%24@localhost:5432/db
  • Or use the discrete fields (no encoding needed).

Useful settings (optional)

• LOG_DB_LEVEL (default: DEBUG) — minimum level stored in DB
• LOG_DB_CAPTURE_LEVEL — capture level for Scrapy loggers routed to DB (does not affect console)
• LOG_DB_LOGGERS — allowed logger prefixes (defaults always include [spider.name, 'scrapy'])
• LOG_DB_EXCLUDE_LOGGERS (default: ['scrapy.core.scraper'])
• LOG_DB_EXCLUDE_PATTERNS (default: ['Scraped from <'])
• CREATE_TABLES (default: True) — create job_items, job_requests, job_logs on startup
• ITEMS_TABLE, REQUESTS_TABLE, LOGS_TABLE — override table names

Links

• Docs: https://scrapy-item-ingest.readthedocs.io/
• Changelog: docs/development/changelog.rst
• Issues: https://github.com/fawadss1/scrapy_item_ingest/issues

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.