Re: Newbie question about scrapy tutorial

2009-11-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
> i have no idea what scrapy is > http://scrapy.org/ Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring

Re: Newbie question about scrapy tutorial

2009-11-21 Thread Zeynel
Now I use EditpadPro and IDLE which appears to be adequate for beginning level. But PyDev looks fun, I'll try it. By the way, I realized that the spider sends the scraped data to the pipelines.py. Now everything is working. On Nov 21, 11:21 am, DreiJane wrote: > Sorry, > > i have no idea what sc

Re: Newbie question about scrapy tutorial

2009-11-21 Thread DreiJane
Sorry, i have no idea what scrapy is - but i see, that you try to use idle with pipes or anything like that. That cannot work. idle doesn't even handle __file__ correctly. Use a full-fledged python IDE (PyDev under Eclipse leaves very few wishes open) or test in a python interpreter shell. Good l