Retrieving Images in Scrapy

Question

I read a few other answers here, but I missed something fundamental. I am trying to extract images from a site using CrawlSpider.

settings.py

BOT_NAME = 'healthycomm'

SPIDER_MODULES = ['healthycomm.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'healthycomm.spiders'

ITEM_PIPELINES = {'scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images.ImagesPipeline': 1}
IMAGES_STORE = '~/Desktop/scrapy_nsml/healthycomm/images'

items.py

class HealthycommItem(scrapy.Item):
    page_heading = scrapy.Field()
    page_title = scrapy.Field()
    page_link = scrapy.Field()
    page_content = scrapy.Field()
    page_content_block = scrapy.Field()

    image_url = scrapy.Field()
    image = scrapy.Field()

HealthycommSpider.py

class HealthycommSpiderSpider(CrawlSpider):
    name = "healthycomm_spider"
    allowed_domains = ["healthycommunity.org.au"]
    start_urls = (
        'http://www.healthycommunity.org.au/',
    )
    rules = (Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(allow=()), callback="parse_items", follow=False), ) 


    def parse_items(self, response):
        content = Selector(response=response).xpath('//body')
        for nodes in content:

            img_urls = nodes.xpath('//img/@src').extract()

            item = HealthycommItem()
            item['page_heading'] = nodes.xpath("//title").extract()
            item["page_title"] = nodes.xpath("//h1/text()").extract()
            item["page_link"] = response.url
            item["page_content"] = nodes.xpath('//div[@class="CategoryDescription"]').extract()
            item['image_url'] = img_urls 
            item['image'] = ['http://www.healthycommunity.org.au' + img for img in img_urls]

            yield item

I am not very familiar with Python in general, but I feel like I am missing something very simple here.

Thanks Jamie

Answer 1

If you want to use the standard ImagesPipeline, you need to change your method parse_itemsto something like:

import urlparse
...

    def parse_items(self, response):
        content = Selector(response=response).xpath('//body')
        for nodes in content:

            # build absolute URLs
            img_urls = [urlparse.urljoin(response.url, src)
                        for src in nodes.xpath('//img/@src').extract()]

            item = HealthycommItem()
            item['page_heading'] = nodes.xpath("//title").extract()
            item["page_title"] = nodes.xpath("//h1/text()").extract()
            item["page_link"] = response.url
            item["page_content"] = nodes.xpath('//div[@class="CategoryDescription"]').extract()

            # use "image_urls" instead of "image_url"
            item['image_urls'] = img_urls 

            yield item

And to determine your subject you need the fields " images" and " image_urls" (plural, not singular)

- IMAGES_URLS_FIELD IMAGES_RESULT_FIELD