Objects to clean up are not JSON serializable, storing them on couchdb
items.py classes
import scrapy
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
import json
class Attributes(scrapy.Item):
description = Field()
pages=Field()
author=Field()
class Vendor(scrapy.Item):
title=Field()
order_url=Field()
class bookItem(scrapy.Item):
title = Field()
url = Field()
marketprice=Field()
images=Field()
price=Field()
attributes=Field()
vendor=Field()
time_scraped=Field()
my scraper
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector from scrapy.item import Item from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider from scrapy import log from scrapper.items import bookItem,Attributes,Vendor import couchdb import logging import json import time from couchdb import Server class libertySpider(CrawlSpider): couch = couchdb.Server() db = couch['python-tests'] name = "libertybooks" allowed_domains = ["libertybooks.com"] unvisited_urls = [] visited_urls = [] start_urls = [ "http://www.libertybooks.com" ] url=["http://www.kaymu.pk"] rules = [Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(), callback='parse_item', follow=True)] total=0 productpages=0 exceptionnum=0 def parse_item(self,response): if response.url.find("pid")!=-1: with open("number.html","w") as w: self.total=self.total+1 w.write(str(self.total)+","+str(self.productpages)) itm=bookItem() attrib=Attributes() ven=Vendor() images=[] try: name=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_lblbookName"]/text()').extract()[0] name=name.encode('utf-8') except: name="name not found" try: price=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_lblPrice"]/text()').extract()[0] price=price.encode('utf-8') except: price=-1 try: marketprice=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_lblmarketprice"]/text()').extract()[0] marketprice=marketprice.encode('utf-8') except: marketprice=-1 try: pages=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_spanpages"]/text()').extract()[0] pages=pages.encode('utf-8') except: pages=-1 try: author=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_lblAuthor"]/text()').extract()[0] author=author.encode('utf-8') except: author="author not found" try: description=response.xpath('//span[@id="pagecontent_lblbookdetail"]/text()').extract()[0] description=description.encode('utf-8') except: description="des: not found" try: image=response.xpath('//img[@id="pagecontent_imgProduct"]/@src').extract()[0] image=image.encode('utf-8') except: image="#" ven['title']='libertybooks' ven['order_url']=response.url itm['vendor']=ven itm['time_scraped']=time.ctime() itm['title']=name itm['url']=response.url itm['price']=price itm['marketprice']=marketprice itm['images']=images attrib['pages']=pages attrib['author']=author attrib['description']=description itm['attributes']=attrib self.saveindb(itm) return itm def saveindb(self,obj): logging.debug(obj) self.db.save(obj)
Stack trace
2014-12-09 13:57:37-0800 [libertybooks] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET http://www.libertybooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?pid=16532>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 824, in runUntilCurrent
call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/task.py", line 638, in _tick
taskObj._oneWorkUnit()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/task.py", line 484, in _oneWorkUnit
result = next(self._iterator)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/utils/defer.py", line 57, in <genexpr>
work = (callable(elem, *args, **named) for elem in iterable)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/utils/defer.py", line 96, in iter_errback
yield next(it)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/offsite.py", line 26, in process_spider_output
for x in result:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/referer.py", line 22, in <genexpr>
return (_set_referer(r) for r in result or ())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/urllength.py", line 33, in <genexpr>
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/depth.py", line 50, in <genexpr>
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/contrib/spiders/crawl.py", line 67, in _parse_response
cb_res = callback(response, **cb_kwargs) or ()
File "/home/asad/Desktop/scrapper/scrapper/spiders/liberty_spider.py", line 107, in parse_item
self.saveindb(itm)
File "/home/asad/Desktop/scrapper/scrapper/spiders/liberty_spider.py", line 112, in saveindb
self.db.save(obj)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/client.py", line 431, in save
_, _, data = func(body=doc, **options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/http.py", line 514, in post_json
**params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/http.py", line 533, in _request_json
headers=headers, **params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/http.py", line 529, in _request
credentials=self.credentials)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/http.py", line 244, in request
body = json.encode(body).encode('utf-8')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/json.py", line 69, in encode
return _encode(obj)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/couchdb/json.py", line 135, in <lambda>
dumps(obj, allow_nan=False, ensure_ascii=False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 250, in dumps
sort_keys=sort_keys, **kw).encode(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 207, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 270, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 184, in default
raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
exceptions.TypeError: {'attributes': {'author': 'Tina Fey',
'description': "Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\r\n\r\nBefore 30 Rock, Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher.\r\n\r\nShe also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.\r\n\r\nAt last, Tina Fey story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon - from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.\r\n\r\nTina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.",
'pages': '304 Pages'},
'images': [],
'marketprice': '1,095',
'price': '986',
'time_scraped': 'Tue Dec 9 13:57:37 2014',
'title': 'Bossypants',
'url': 'http://www.libertybooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?pid=16532',
'vendor': {'order_url': 'http://www.libertybooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?pid=16532',
'title': 'libertybooks'}} is not JSON serializable
I start with scrapy and couchdb, I also tried to convert the object item in the json object using "json.dumps (itm, default = lambda o:. O dict , sort_keys = True The, indent = 4)", but got the same answer, so please tell me is there a way to make my json serializable class so that they can be stored in couchdb?
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Well, the shorter answer is to just use ScrapyJSONEncoder :
from scrapy.utils.serialize import ScrapyJSONEncoder
_encoder = ScrapyJSONEncoder()
...
def saveindb(self,obj):
logging.debug(obj)
self.db.save(_encoder.encode(obj))
Longer version: If you intend to evolve this spider (if it doesn't have to be a one-off), you can use a pipeline to store items in CouchDB and keep exploded issues (bypass / clean up in spider code, save pipeline code to database).
It might look like an add-on at first, but it really helps when the project starts to grow and makes testing easier.
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