I'm trying to get data from this website using scrapy-splash but im not able to extract data. I want to get data about each real state like href, price, etc. Here is my code:
in setings.py:
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False
USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36"
SPLASH_ENABLED = True
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy_splash.SplashCookiesMiddleware': 723,
'scrapy_splash.SplashMiddleware': 725,
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware': 810,
}
SPLASH_URL = 'http://localhost:8050/'
SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy_splash.SplashDeduplicateArgsMiddleware': 100,
}
DUPEFILTER_CLASS = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareDupeFilter'
HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy_splash.SplashAwareFSCacheStorage'
my spider:
class M2Spider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "m2"
allowed_domains = ['metrocuadrado.com']
start_urls = [
'https://www.metrocuadrado.com/bodega/arriendo'
]
def start_requests(self):
for url in self.start_urls:
yield SplashRequest(url=url,callback= self.parse,
endpoint='render.html',
args={'wait': 10},)
def parse(self, response):
print("--------------------------------------------------------------")
real_states= response.selector.xpath(".//a[@class='sc-bdVaJa ebNrSm']").getall()
print("real_states")
The output print is an empty list []. I am new to splash. Any suggestions?
What I would do instead is this:
Send a request to https://www.metrocuadrado.com/results/_next/static/chunks/commons.8afec6af6d5add2097bf.js, in the response you'll find an API-key if you search for "X-Api-Key". So that can be extracted easily with regex, something like: re.findall(r'"X-Api-Key":"(\w+)"')
.
Then, when you've extracted the API key, send a request to https://www.metrocuadrado.com/rest-search/search?seo=/bodega/arriendo&from=0&size=50, which is the hidden API in the website you sent. To get a valid response you have to attach the header like this
scrapy.Request(
url=url_variable,
headers={
"x-api-key": api_key_variable_from_prev_step
}
)
From that API you get JSON formatted data which is usually more reliable than parsing the html since that changes more oftan.