scrapinghub project for scraping news from https://www.gismeteo.ua/news/
Project is writen on Python 3 (tested on 3.5).
It have only one spider - gismeteo. It scrapes urls (that weren't scraped yet),
and then follows them and scrapes articles to Google Drive Sheet.
Follow steps from this page
to generate .json key and save it to scrapy_climate folder with client-secret.json name.
Connection to Scrapy Cloud via GitHub mustn't work because it doesn't support Python 3.
So you need to use shub command line tool.
Define your project id for each shub deploy call, or edit scrapinghub.yml.
To run spider you need to create options.json in scrapy_climate folder.
Use JFON format to define variables like:
{
"SCRAPY_CLOUD_API_KEY": "<scrapy_cloud_api_key>",
"SCRAPY_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID": "<scrapy_cloud_project_id>",
"SPREADSHEET_TITLE": "<google_drive_spreadsheet_title>",
"SPIDER_TO_WORKSHEET_DICTIONARY": {
"gismeteo": 1
"<spider>": <worksheet_id_starting_from_zero>
}
}This file is ignored by git, but will be deployed to ScrapingHub.
Pipeline gives items to StorageMaster that
appends them to defined in spider arguments Google Drive Sheet ordered by
url, header, tags and body of article to worsheet that defined for currently
running spider in options.json
worksheet (so it must be created before, or spider will raise an RuntimeError), and when
all items where added, master ends his work with a row that contains
url to job on ScrapingHub, CPU datetime, number of scraped articles
and two ----- strings.
When spider scrapes news page, first of all it fetches indexes list of scraped
articles from last week using Scrapy Cloud API. Then spider iterates over
links to articles and scrapes only articles that aren't in the indexes list.
In scrapy_climate/spider.py Python module it is TemplateSpider class
which can be use used as parent for actually running spiders. To make new
spider you will need to configure it's selectors and define name, domain,
and relative path to first page. More about it in the docstrings.