Getting repeated requests from same url with different values - scrapy

Question

I am trying to crawl some data as my side project but I am having a problem gathering it. I have been trying for two day without much luck.
First problem:
When I crawl the post form the main page I get a wrong token.
Second problem:
I have read and I have tried to implement scrapy docs request to get the phone number but in vain,
or this answer
stackoverflow
Third problem:
How would I go to implement the next page (comment out code inside gumtree.py).
Fourth problem:
I am now able to get the phone numbers but I am getting repeated requests to the same url with different values, [see results]
I would really appreciate if anyone could give me a direction.
My main goal is to crawl post that have phone numbers
I have tried to search stackoverflow but I couldn't find the proper post.
Many Thanks
setting.py
BOT_NAME = 'crawler'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['crawler.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'crawler.spiders'enter code here
USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.93 Safari/537.36"
TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False
gumtree.py [UPDATED]
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import json
import scrapy
from scrapy import Request, Item, Field, Selector
def complete_link(string):
return string
class MyItem(Item):
token = Field()
post_id = Field()
post_url = Field()
phone_num = Field()
phone_url = Field()
class GumtreeSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "gumtree"
allowed_domains = ["gumtree.com"]
start_urls = [
'https://www.gumtree.com/search?search_category=cars',
]
def parse(self, response):
item = MyItem()
for href in response.css('a.listing-link::attr(href)').extract():
domain = 'https://www.gumtree.com' + href
request = Request(domain, callback=self.parse_post, meta={'domain':domain,'item':item})
yield request
# next_page = response.css('li.pagination-next a::attr("href")').extract_first()
# if next_page is not None:
# next_page = response.urljoin(next_page)
# yield Request(next_page, callback=self.parse)
def parse_post(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
item['post_url'] = response.meta['domain']
post_id = re.match('.*?([0-9]+)$', item['post_url'])
if post_id:
item['post_id'] = post_id.group(1)
token = response.xpath('//script[contains(., "revealSellerTelephoneNumberToken")]').extract()
arr_token = re.findall(r'"([^"]*)"', str(token))
if len(arr_token) == 15:
item['token'] = arr_token[-2]
request = Request('https://www.gumtree.com/ajax/account/seller/reveal/number/' + item['post_id'], headers={'X-GUMTREE-TOKEN':item['token']}, callback=self.parse_phone, meta={'item':item})
yield request
def parse_phone(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
phone = json.loads(response.body_as_unicode())
item['phone_num'] = phone['data']
return item
results: [scrapy crawl gumtree -o ..\result.json]
{"post_url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-galaxy-2.0-tdci-auto-titanium-7-seater-full-service-history-alloys/1214586540", "post_id": "1214586540", "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJuYmYiOjE0ODYyMjgwMTUsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ3VtdHJlZS5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0ODYyNDk2MTQsImlhdCI6MTQ4NjIyODAxNCwiYWR2ZXJ0X2lkIjoxMjE0NTg2NTQwfQ.Lv0aCIKHo_2DbTcIw7RvE535PFAD5OX16_SFMDz--Cs", "phone_num": "004407488470949"},
{"post_url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-galaxy-2.0-tdci-auto-titanium-7-seater-full-service-history-alloys/1214586540", "post_id": "1214586540", "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJuYmYiOjE0ODYyMjgwMTUsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ3VtdHJlZS5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0ODYyNDk2MTQsImlhdCI6MTQ4NjIyODAxNCwiYWR2ZXJ0X2lkIjoxMjE0NTg2NTQwfQ.Lv0aCIKHo_2DbTcIw7RvE535PFAD5OX16_SFMDz--Cs", "phone_num": "004407488470949"},
{"post_url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-galaxy-2.0-tdci-auto-titanium-7-seater-full-service-history-alloys/1214586540", "post_id": "1214586540", "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJuYmYiOjE0ODYyMjgwMTUsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ3VtdHJlZS5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0ODYyNDk2MTQsImlhdCI6MTQ4NjIyODAxNCwiYWR2ZXJ0X2lkIjoxMjE0NTg2NTQwfQ.Lv0aCIKHo_2DbTcIw7RvE535PFAD5OX16_SFMDz--Cs", "phone_num": "01527853397"},

Answer 1

Have you checked that meta['item'] actually being passed to parse_token()?
I'd do the following:
meta = { 'item': item }
request = Request(response.urljoin(href), meta=meta, callback=self.parse_token)
yield request

Answer 2

I have found the solution.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re, json, scrapy
from crawler.items import CrawlerItem
from scrapy import Request, Item, Field, Selector
gumtree = 'https://www.gumtree.com'
getphone = 'https://www.gumtree.com/ajax/account/seller/reveal/number/'
class GumtreeSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "gumtree"
allowed_domains = ["gumtree.com"]
start_urls = [
'https://www.gumtree.com/search?search_category=cars',
]
def parse(self, response):
item = CrawlerItem()
pid = []
arr_url = []
for href in response.css('a.listing-link::attr(href)').extract():
if len(href) > 0:
post_id = u''.join(href).encode('utf-8').strip()
post_id = re.match('.*?([0-9]+)$', post_id)
if post_id:
pid.append(post_id.group(1))
domain = gumtree + href
arr_url.append(domain)
i = 0
while i < len(arr_url):
url = u''.join(arr_url[i]).encode('utf-8').strip()
request = Request(url, callback=self.parse_post, meta={'url':url,'item':item,'pid':pid[i]}, headers={'Referer':gumtree})
i += 1
yield request
next_page = response.css('li.pagination-next a::attr("href")').extract_first()
if next_page is not None:
next_page = response.urljoin(next_page)
yield Request(next_page, callback=self.parse)
def parse_post(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
item['post_id'] = response.meta['pid']
item['post_url'] = response.meta['url']
token = response.xpath('//script[contains(., "revealSellerTelephoneNumberToken")]').extract()
arr_token = re.findall(r'"([^"]*)"', str(token))
if len(arr_token) == 15:
item['token'] = arr_token[-2]
ref = item['post_url']
req = Request(getphone + item['post_id'], callback=self.parse_phone, headers={'X-GUMTREE-TOKEN':item['token'], 'Referer':ref}, meta={'url':response.meta['url'],'item':item})
return req
def parse_phone(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
item['post_url'] = response.meta['url']
phone = json.loads(response.body_as_unicode())
item['phone_num'] = u''.join(phone['data']).encode('utf-8').strip()
return item