scrapy-zen 0.5.8

Scrapy Toolkit

scrapy-zen

A toolkit for Scrapy that provides multiple output pipelines, monitoring capabilities, and enhanced request handling.

Features

• Unified download handler
• Request pre-processing and deduplication
• Item pre-processing and deduplication
• Spidermon integration for monitoring
• Support for Playwright, Browser Impersonation, and Zyte API
• Multiple output pipelines (Discord, Telegram, WebSocket, HTTP, gRPC, Synoptic)

Installation

pip install scrapy-zen[all]

Available extras:

• grpc - gRPC pipeline dependencies
• websocket - WebSocket pipeline dependencies
• monitoring - Spidermon integration
• playwright - Playwright support
• impersonate - Browser impersonation support
• zyte - Zyte API support

Configuration

settings.py

DB_EXPIRY_DAYS = 30  # Optional, defaults to 30 days

The following settings need to be configured in your .env file:

.env

# Database settings (required for deduplication)
DB_NAME = "your_db_name"
DB_USER = "your_db_user"
DB_PASS = "your_db_password"
DB_HOST = "localhost"
DB_PORT = "5432"

Optional Pipeline Settings

Discord Pipeline

DISCORD_SERVER_URI = "your_discord_webhook_url"

Synoptic Pipeline

SYNOPTIC_SERVER_URI = "your_synoptic_server_url"
SYNOPTIC_STREAM_ID = "your_stream_id"
SYNOPTIC_API_KEY = "your_api_key"

Telegram Pipeline

TELEGRAM_SERVER_URI = "your_telegram_api_url"
TELEGRAM_TOKEN = "your_bot_token"
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID = "your_chat_id"

gRPC Pipeline

GRPC_SERVER_URI = "your_grpc_server"
GRPC_TOKEN = "your_token"
GRPC_ID = "your_id"
GRPC_PROTO_MODULE = "your_proto_module"

WebSocket Pipeline

WS_SERVER_URI = "your_websocket_server_url"

HTTP Pipeline

HTTP_SERVER_URI = "your_http_server_url"
HTTP_TOKEN = "your_auth_token"

Zyte & Playwright Settings

settings.py

# Playwright settings
PLAYWRIGHT_ABORT_REQUEST = lambda req: req.resource_type == "image"
PLAYWRIGHT_PROCESS_REQUEST_HEADERS = None

# Zyte API
ZYTE_ENABLED = True  # Enable Zyte API integration

Monitoring Settings

settings.py

# Spidermon settings
SPIDERMON_ENABLED = True
SPIDERMON_MAX_ERRORS = 0
SPIDERMON_MAX_CRITICALS = 0
SPIDERMON_MAX_DOWNLOADER_EXCEPTIONS = 0
SPIDERMON_UNWANTED_HTTP_CODES = {403: 0, 429: 0}

# Discord notifications
SPIDERMON_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL = "your_discord_webhook"

# Telegram notifications (disabled at the moment)
SPIDERMON_TELEGRAM_SENDER_TOKEN = "your_telegram_token"
SPIDERMON_TELEGRAM_RECIPIENTS = ["your_chat_id"]

Addons

ZenAddon

It provides a plug-in-play experience by configuring all previous settings except monitoring.

SpidermonAddon

It provides a plug-in-play experience by configuring monitoring settings.

"ADDONS": {
    "scrapy_zen.addons.ZenAddon": 1,
    "scrapy_zen.addons.SpidermonAddon": 2,
}

Usage

"ADDONS": {
    "scrapy_zen.addons.ZenAddon": 1,
    "scrapy_zen.addons.SpidermonAddon": 2,
}
'ITEM_PIPELINES': {
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.PreProcessingPipeline': 100,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.DiscordPipeline': 200,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.TelegramPipeline': 300,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.WSPipeline': 400,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.GRPCPipeline': 500,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.HttpPipeline': 600,
    'scrapy_zen.pipelines.SynopticPipeline': 700,
}
'DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES': {
    'scrapy_zen.middlewares.PreProcessingMiddleware': 100,
}

yield Request(
    url="http://example.com",
    meta={
        "_id": "unique_id",  # For deduplication
        "_dt": "2024-01-01",  # For date filtering
        "_dt_format": "%Y-%m-%d",  # Optional date format
    }
)