Scrapy issue with iTunes' AppStore
- by Eric
I am using Scrapy to fetch some data from iTunes' AppStore database. I start with this list of apps: http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-applications/id36?mt=8
In the following code I have used the simplest regex which targets all apps in the US store.
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
class AppStoreSpider(CrawlSpider):
domain_name = 'itunes.apple.com'
start_urls = ['http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-applications/id6015?mt=8']
rules = (
Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(allow='itunes\.apple\.com/us/app'),
'parse_app', follow=True,
),
)
def parse_app(self, response):
....
SPIDER = AppStoreSpider()
When I run it I receive the following:
[itunes.apple.com] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-applications/id6015?mt=8> (referer: None)
[itunes.apple.com] DEBUG: Filtered offsite request to 'itunes.apple.com': <GET http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bloomberg/id281941097?mt=8>
As you can see, when it starts crawling the first page it says: "Filtered offsite request to 'itunes.apple.com'". and then the spider stops..
it also returns this message:
[ScrapyHTTPPageGetter,client] /usr/lib/python2.5/cookielib.py:1577: exceptions.UserWarning: cookielib bug!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cookielib.py", line 1575, in make_cookies
parse_ns_headers(ns_hdrs), request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cookielib.py", line 1532, in _cookies_from_attrs_set
cookie = self._cookie_from_cookie_tuple(tup, request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cookielib.py", line 1451, in _cookie_from_cookie_tuple
if version is not None: version = int(version)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '"1"'
I have used the same script for other website and I didn't have this problem.
Any suggestion?
