📅 2024-03-22 — Session: Optimized Scrapy Spider and Fixed File Naming Issue
🕒 04:45–06:10
🏷️ Labels: Scrapy, Web Scraping, Python, Data Processing
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The session aimed to optimize the execution of a Scrapy spider for web scraping tasks and address a file naming issue in the MultiCSVItemPipeline.
Key Activities:
- Reviewed the execution summary of a Scrapy spider, focusing on requests, responses, items scraped, and memory usage.
- Managed the
CategoriasSpider
class for ethical and effective product data scraping from the Precios Claros website. - Executed the
CategoriasSpider
in Scrapy, detailing setup, execution, and output verification. - Resolved a
FileNotFoundError
in the MultiCSVItemPipeline by adjusting the filename format and ensuring directory existence.
Achievements:
- Successfully summarized Scrapy spider execution results and outlined next steps for data review and optimization.
- Provided clear guidelines for using the
CategoriasSpider
class, ensuring ethical scraping practices. - Executed the
CategoriasSpider
with detailed instructions for successful data extraction. - Fixed the file naming issue in the MultiCSVItemPipeline, preventing future errors.
Pending Tasks:
- Further review and optimization of the scraped data are needed to enhance data processing efficiency.