def get_year(self, meta, response): regx = '//span[@class="year"]/text()' data = response.xpath(regx).extract() if data: meta['year'] = validator.match_year(data[0]) return meta
def set_year(self, meta, response): regex = '//span[@class="year"]/text()' match = response.xpath(regex).get() if match: meta["year"] = validator.match_year(match) return meta