def root_category_subpages(self, response):
"""
Crawl the root category pages to get all their sub categories.
"""
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sub_cats = hxs.select(
'//tr[@class="forum"]/td[@class="c_forum"]/strong/a')
items_and_reqs = []
for cat_selector in sub_cats:
cat_load = ForumLoader(ForumItem(), cat_selector)
cat_load.add_xpath('zeta_id', '@href')
cat_load.add_xpath('title', 'text()')
cat_load.add_value('parent', response.request.meta['parent'])
cat = cat_load.load_item()
items_and_reqs.append(cat)
# Send off a request to recursively look for categories in the
# category subpage
req = Request(cat_selector.select('@href').extract()[0] +
"?cutoff=100",
meta={'parent': cat['zeta_id']},
callback=self.root_category_subpages)
items_and_reqs.append(req)
# Send off a request to process the category subpage.
# including the parent forum in the meta.
# req = Request(cat_selector.select('@href').extract()[0],
# meta={'forum': cat['zeta_id']},
# callback=self.thread_list)
# items_and_reqs.append(req)
return items_and_reqs + self.thread_list(
response, response.request.meta['parent'])
def root_index(self, response):
"""
Crawl the main index to get all root categories.
"""
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
# Get all root categories on the page, store them and then fire of a
# request to go visit their specific subpage so we can get the subcats.
root_cats = hxs.select('//table[@class="cat_head"]//h2[not(@class)]/a')
if len(root_cats) == 0:
print "ERROR"
import code
code.interact(local=dict(globals(), **locals()))
items_and_reqs = []
for cat_selector in root_cats:
# Load root category as a ForumItem (with no parent)
cat_load = ForumLoader(ForumItem(), cat_selector)
cat_load.add_xpath('zeta_id', '@href')
cat_load.add_xpath('title', 'text()')
cat = cat_load.load_item()
items_and_reqs.append(cat)
# Send off a request to process the root category subpage.
# including the parent forum in the meta.
req = Request(cat_selector.select('@href').extract()[0] +
"?cutoff=100",
meta={'parent': cat['zeta_id']},
callback=self.root_category_subpages)
items_and_reqs.append(req)
return items_and_reqs
def root_category_subpages(self, response):
"""
Crawl the root category pages to get all their sub categories.
"""
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sub_cats = hxs.select('//tr[@class="forum"]/td[@class="c_forum"]/strong/a')
items_and_reqs = []
for cat_selector in sub_cats:
cat_load = ForumLoader(ForumItem(), cat_selector)
cat_load.add_xpath('zeta_id', '@href')
cat_load.add_xpath('title', 'text()')
cat_load.add_value('parent', response.request.meta['parent'])
cat = cat_load.load_item()
items_and_reqs.append(cat)
# Send off a request to process the root category subpage.
# including the parent forum in the meta.
req = Request(cat_selector.select('@href').extract()[0],
meta={'forum': cat['zeta_id']},
callback=self.thread_list)
items_and_reqs.append(req)
return items_and_reqs
def root_index(self, response):
"""
Crawl the main index to get all root categories.
"""
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
# Get all root categories on the page, store them and then fire of a
# request to go visit their specific subpage so we can get the subcats.
root_cats = hxs.select('//table[@class="cat_head"]//h2[not(@class)]/a')
items_and_reqs = []
for cat_selector in root_cats:
# Load root category as a ForumItem (with no parent)
cat_load = ForumLoader(ForumItem(), cat_selector)
cat_load.add_xpath('zeta_id', '@href')
cat_load.add_xpath('title', 'text()')
cat = cat_load.load_item()
items_and_reqs.append(cat)
# Send off a request to process the root category subpage.
# including the parent forum in the meta.
req = Request(cat_selector.select('@href').extract()[0],
meta={'parent': cat['zeta_id']},
callback=self.root_category_subpages)
items_and_reqs.append(req)
return items_and_reqs