Xpath from next page to scrapy in Stack Overflow

I'm trying to crawl Stack Overflow with scrapy, but I'm not clear enough to make the rule to get next page. I don't know if the XPath I choose is right also.

He follows the code:

class StackCrawlerSpider(CrawlSpider):

    name = 'stack_crawler'

    allowed_domains = ['stackoverflow.com']

    start_urls = [

        'http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest'

    ]

    rules = [

        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=(), restrict_xpaths=('div[@class="pager fl"]/a[@class="page-numbers next"]/@href',)),

             callback='parse_item', follow=True)

    ]

Could someone who understand scrapy an XPath help me to get next page from the following page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest) and add it to the rule?

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

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asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

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I'm trying to crawl Stack Overflow with scrapy, but I'm not clear enough to make the rule to get next page. I don't know if the XPath I choose is right also.

He follows the code:

class StackCrawlerSpider(CrawlSpider):

    name = 'stack_crawler'

    allowed_domains = ['stackoverflow.com']

    start_urls = [

        'http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest'

    ]

    rules = [

        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=(), restrict_xpaths=('div[@class="pager fl"]/a[@class="page-numbers next"]/@href',)),

             callback='parse_item', follow=True)

    ]

Could someone who understand scrapy an XPath help me to get next page from the following page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest) and add it to the rule?

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

add a comment |

I'm trying to crawl Stack Overflow with scrapy, but I'm not clear enough to make the rule to get next page. I don't know if the XPath I choose is right also.

He follows the code:

class StackCrawlerSpider(CrawlSpider):

    name = 'stack_crawler'

    allowed_domains = ['stackoverflow.com']

    start_urls = [

        'http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest'

    ]

    rules = [

        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=(), restrict_xpaths=('div[@class="pager fl"]/a[@class="page-numbers next"]/@href',)),

             callback='parse_item', follow=True)

    ]

Could someone who understand scrapy an XPath help me to get next page from the following page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest) and add it to the rule?

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

I'm trying to crawl Stack Overflow with scrapy, but I'm not clear enough to make the rule to get next page. I don't know if the XPath I choose is right also.

He follows the code:

class StackCrawlerSpider(CrawlSpider):

    name = 'stack_crawler'

    allowed_domains = ['stackoverflow.com']

    start_urls = [

        'http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest'

    ]

    rules = [

        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=(), restrict_xpaths=('div[@class="pager fl"]/a[@class="page-numbers next"]/@href',)),

             callback='parse_item', follow=True)

    ]

Could someone who understand scrapy an XPath help me to get next page from the following page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest) and add it to the rule?

xpath web-scraping scrapy

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

edited Nov 26 '18 at 1:42

Pang

6,9281664102

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

asked Nov 21 '18 at 23:34

Lucas Oliveira Costa

154

add a comment |

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you need to select root element // then go to span containing class page-numbers next and text next then go to it parent .. which is a tag.

//span[@class="page-numbers next"]/../@href

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

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Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

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you need to select root element // then go to span containing class page-numbers next and text next then go to it parent .. which is a tag.

//span[@class="page-numbers next"]/../@href

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

add a comment |

you need to select root element // then go to span containing class page-numbers next and text next then go to it parent .. which is a tag.

//span[@class="page-numbers next"]/../@href

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

add a comment |

you need to select root element // then go to span containing class page-numbers next and text next then go to it parent .. which is a tag.

//span[@class="page-numbers next"]/../@href

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

you need to select root element // then go to span containing class page-numbers next and text next then go to it parent .. which is a tag.

//span[@class="page-numbers next"]/../@href

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

answered Nov 22 '18 at 2:09

ewwink

11.9k22239

Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

add a comment |

Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

Wouldn't it be simpler to use //a[@rel="next"]/@href?

– Casper
Nov 22 '18 at 13:52

yes you're right, above is first way in my mind

– ewwink
Nov 22 '18 at 20:16

add a comment |

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