Starting with Start Requests

In the last lesson we learned about setting up the start_requests method within a scrapy spider. Here we have another toy-model spider which doesn't actually scrape anything, but gives you a chance to play with the start_requests method. What we want is for you to start becomming familiar with the arguments you pass into the scrapy.Request call within start_requests.

As before, we have created the function inspect_class to examine what you are yielding in start_requests.

Fill in the required scrapy object into the class YourSpider needed to create the scrapy spider.
Fill in the blank in the yielded scrapy.Request call within the start_requests method so that the URL this spider would start scraping is "https://www.datacamp.com" and would use the parse method (within the YourSpider class) as the method to parse the website.

Take Hint (-30 XP)

Exercise

Starting with Start Requests

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