Comment crawler doesn't work

[gaukhar98]

scrapy crawl comments -a email="some@gmail.com" -a password="password" -a page="DonaldTrump/story.php?story_fbid=2123087281087706&id=779444322118682" -a lang="en" -o Trump.csv It is not woking! And gives ERROR as below: 2019-02-12 07:21:42 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.6.0 started (bot: fbcrawl) 2019-02-12 07:21:42 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.2.1.0, libxml2 2.9.8, cssselect 1.0.3, parsel 1.5.1, w3lib 1.20.0, Twisted 18.9.0, Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 29 2018, 13:32:41) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 18.0.0 (OpenSSL 1.0.2o 27 Mar 2018), cryptography 2.2.2, Platform Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0 2019-02-12 07:21:42 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl', 'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8', 'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv', 'FEED_URI': 'chinese.csv', 'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO', 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'], 'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'} 2019-02-12 07:21:42 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 3895d32ba798cd1e 2019-02-12 07:21:42 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions: ['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats', 'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole', 'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter', 'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats'] 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares: ['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats'] 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares: ['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware'] 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines: [] 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min) 2019-02-12 07:21:43 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023 2019-02-12 07:21:47 [comments] INFO: Parse function called on https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/story.php?story_fbid=2123087281087706&id=779444322118682 2019-02-12 07:21:48 [scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror] INFO: Ignoring response <404 https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/story.php?story_fbid=2123087281087706&id=779444322118682>: HTTP status code is not handled or not allowed 2019-02-12 07:21:48 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished) 2019-02-12 07:21:48 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats: {'downloader/request_bytes': 4038, 'downloader/request_count': 6, 'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 4, 'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2, 'downloader/response_bytes': 40779, 'downloader/response_count': 6, 'downloader/response_status_count/200': 3, 'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2, 'downloader/response_status_count/404': 1, 'finish_reason': 'finished', 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 12, 1, 21, 48, 207776), 'httperror/response_ignored_count': 1, 'httperror/response_ignored_status_count/404': 1, 'log_count/INFO': 11, 'request_depth_max': 3, 'response_received_count': 4, 'scheduler/dequeued': 6, 'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 6, 'scheduler/enqueued': 6, 'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 6, 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 12, 1, 21, 43, 376171)} 2019-02-12 07:21:48 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

[rugantio]

Yes, it's specified in the README, the comments crawler is broken, it will be refactored before Feb 24th, with some new features

[rugantio]

Refactoring is done! Let me know if you encounter further problems!