Scrapy 1.6.0:
Highlights:
* better Windows support;
* Python 3.7 compatibility;
* big documentation improvements, including a switch
from .extract_first() + .extract() API to .get() + .getall()
API;
* feed exports, FilePipeline and MediaPipeline improvements;
* better extensibility: :signal:item_error and
:signal:request_reached_downloader signals; from_crawler support
for feed exporters, feed storages and dupefilters.
* scrapy.contracts fixes and new features;
* telnet console security improvements, first released as a
backport in :ref:release-1.5.2;
* clean-up of the deprecated code;
* various bug fixes, small new features and usability improvements across
the codebase.
Scrapy 1.5.2:
* *Security bugfix*: Telnet console extension can be easily exploited by rogue
websites POSTing content to http://localhost:6023, we haven't found a way to
exploit it from Scrapy, but it is very easy to trick a browser to do so and
elevates the risk for local development environment.
*The fix is backwards incompatible*, it enables telnet user-password
authentication by default with a random generated password. If you can't
upgrade right away, please consider setting :setting:TELNET_CONSOLE_PORT
out of its default value.
See :ref:telnet console <topics-telnetconsole> documentation for more info
* Backport CI build failure under GCE environemnt due to boto import error.
Scrapy 1.5.1:
This is a maintenance release with important bug fixes, but no new features:
* O(N^2) gzip decompression issue which affected Python 3 and PyPy
is fixed
* skipping of TLS validation errors is improved
* Ctrl-C handling is fixed in Python 3.5+
* testing fixes
* documentation improvements
Scrapy 1.5.0:
This release brings small new features and improvements across the codebase.
Some highlights:
* Google Cloud Storage is supported in FilesPipeline and ImagesPipeline.
* Crawling with proxy servers becomes more efficient, as connections
to proxies can be reused now.
* Warnings, exception and logging messages are improved to make debugging
easier.
* scrapy parse command now allows to set custom request meta via
--meta argument.
* Compatibility with Python 3.6, PyPy and PyPy3 is improved;
PyPy and PyPy3 are now supported officially, by running tests on CI.
* Better default handling of HTTP 308, 522 and 524 status codes.
* Documentation is improved, as usual.
Backwards Incompatible Changes
* Scrapy 1.5 drops support for Python 3.3.
* Default Scrapy User-Agent now uses https link to scrapy.org.
**This is technically backwards-incompatible**; override
:setting:USER_AGENT if you relied on old value.
* Logging of settings overridden by custom_settings is fixed;
**this is technically backwards-incompatible** because the logger
changes from [scrapy.utils.log] to [scrapy.crawler]. If you're
parsing Scrapy logs, please update your log parsers.
* LinkExtractor now ignores m4v extension by default, this is change
in behavior.
* 522 and 524 status codes are added to RETRY_HTTP_CODES
New features
- Support <link> tags in Response.follow
- Support for ptpython REPL
- Google Cloud Storage support for FilesPipeline and ImagesPipeline
- New --meta option of the "scrapy parse" command allows to pass additional
request.meta
- Populate spider variable when using shell.inspect_response
- Handle HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect
- Add 522 and 524 to RETRY_HTTP_CODES
- Log versions information at startup
- scrapy.mail.MailSender now works in Python 3 (it requires Twisted 17.9.0)
- Connections to proxy servers are reused
- Add template for a downloader middleware
- Explicit message for NotImplementedError when parse callback not defined
- CrawlerProcess got an option to disable installation of root log handler
- LinkExtractor now ignores m4v extension by default
- Better log messages for responses over :setting:DOWNLOAD_WARNSIZE and
:setting:DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE limits
- Show warning when a URL is put to Spider.allowed_domains instead of
a domain.
Bug fixes
- Fix logging of settings overridden by custom_settings;
**this is technically backwards-incompatible** because the logger
changes from [scrapy.utils.log] to [scrapy.crawler], so please
update your log parsers if needed
- Default Scrapy User-Agent now uses https link to scrapy.org.
**This is technically backwards-incompatible**; override
:setting:USER_AGENT if you relied on old value.
- Fix PyPy and PyPy3 test failures, support them officially
- Fix DNS resolver when DNSCACHE_ENABLED=False
- Add cryptography for Debian Jessie tox test env
- Add verification to check if Request callback is callable
- Port extras/qpsclient.py to Python 3
- Use getfullargspec under the scenes for Python 3 to stop DeprecationWarning
- Update deprecated test aliases
- Fix SitemapSpider support for alternate links
but quite a few handy improvements nonetheless.
Scrapy now supports anonymous FTP sessions with customizable user and
password via the new :setting:`FTP_USER` and :setting:`FTP_PASSWORD` settings.
And if you're using Twisted version 17.1.0 or above, FTP is now available
with Python 3.
There's a new :meth:`response.follow <scrapy.http.TextResponse.follow>` method
for creating requests; **it is now a recommended way to create Requests
in Scrapy spiders**. This method makes it easier to write correct
spiders; ``response.follow`` has several advantages over creating
``scrapy.Request`` objects directly:
* it handles relative URLs;
* it works properly with non-ascii URLs on non-UTF8 pages;
* in addition to absolute and relative URLs it supports Selectors;
for ``<a>`` elements it can also extract their href values.
Bug fixes
- Make ``SpiderLoader`` raise ``ImportError`` again by default for missing
dependencies and wrong :setting:`SPIDER_MODULES`.
These exceptions were silenced as warnings since 1.3.0.
A new setting is introduced to toggle between warning or exception if needed ;
see :setting:`SPIDER_LOADER_WARN_ONLY` for details.
Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to
crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
