📅 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.