I didn't think scrappy had the ability to run remote ajax, similar to
casperjs/phantom/nodejs...

Does scrappy run a headless browser process to accomplish this??

thanks


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Bill Ebeling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Mitch,
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious, Scrapy handles dynamic content quite
> well.  The general approach is to scrape the page, submit requests for the
> ajax, stich the item together, submit it to the pipeline.
>
> That said, it's not complicated, but not trivial, either.
>
> To your specific point, the solution is either to regex it out, or to start
> fiddling with the underlying html.  I would not personally download someone
> else's page and then put it on a server, since the js is still going to be
> running and logging things and all that.
>
> If you want to look into writing a crawler that gets the dynamic content,
> start here: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/request-response.html and
> pay special attention to the meta dict.
>
> If you want more help with the specific site, provide a link so we can see
> it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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