scrapy-selenium-middleware 0.0.5

Scrapy middleware for downloading a page html source using selenium, and interacting with the web driver in the request context eventually returning an HtmlResponse to the spider

scrapy-selenium-middleware

requirements

• This downloader middleware should be used inside an existing Scrapy project
• Install Firefox and gekodriver on the machine running this middleware

pip

• pip install scrapy-selenium-middleware

usage example

for a full scrapy project demo please go here

The middleware receives its settings from scrapy project settings
in your scrapy project settings.py file add the following settings

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {"scrapy_selenium_middleware.SeleniumDownloader":451}
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 1 # multiple concurrent browsers are not supported yet
SELENIUM_IS_HEADLESS = False
SELENIUM_PROXY = "http://user:password@my-proxy-server:port" # set to None to not use a proxy
SELENIUM_USER_AGENT = "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (<system-information>) <platform> (<platform-details>) <extensions>"           
SELENIUM_REQUEST_RECORD_SCOPE = ["api*"] # a list of regular expression to record the incoming requests by matching the url
SELENIUM_FIREFOX_PROFILE_SETTINGS = {}
SELENIUM_PAGE_LOAD_TIMEOUT = 120