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Scrapling Scrapling is an adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl. Its parser learns from website changes and automatically relocates your elements when pages update. Its fetchers bypass anti-bot systems like Cloudflare Turnstile out of the box. And its spider framework lets you scale up to concurrent, multi-session crawls with pause/resume and automatic proxy rotation - all in a few lines of Python. One library, zero compromises. Blazing fast crawls with real-time stats and streaming. Built by Web Scrapers for Web Scrapers and regul…

: 'Einstein'})\n[\u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/Albert-Einstein\">(about...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>,\n \u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/Albert-Einstein\">(about...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>,\n \u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/Albert-Einstein\">(about...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>]\n```\nAnother pro tip: Find all elements whose `href` attribute's value has '/author/' in it\n```python\n>>> page.find_all({'href*': '/author/'})\n[\u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/Albert-Einstein\">(about...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>,\n \u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/J-K-Rowling\">(about)\u003c/a...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>,\n \u003cdata='\u003ca href=\"/author/Albert-Einstein\">(about...' parent='\u003cspan>by \u003csmall class=\"author\" itemprop=...'>,\n...]\n```\nAnd so on...\n\n## Generating selectors\nYou can always generate CSS/XPath selectors for any element that can be reused here or anywhere else, and the most remarkable thing is that it doesn't matter what method you used to find that element!\n\nGenerate a short CSS selector for the `url_element` element (if possible, create a short one; otherwise, it's a full selector)\n```python\n>>> url_element = page.find({'href*': '/author/'})\n>>> url_element.generate_css_selector\n'body > div > div:nth-of-type(2) > div > div > span:nth-of-type(2) > a'\n```\nGenerate a full CSS selector for the `url_element` element from the start of the page\n```python\n>>> url_element.generate_full_css_selector\n'body > div > div:nth-of-type(2) > div > div > span:nth-of-type(2) > a'\n```\nGenerate a short XPath selector for the `url_element` element (if possible, create a short one; otherwise, it's a full selector)\n```python\n>>> url_element.generate_xpath_selector\n'//body/div/div[2]/div/div/span[2]/a'\n```\nGenerate a full XPath selector for the `url_element` element from the start of the page\n```python\n>>> url_element.generate_full_xpath_selector\n'//body/div/div[2]/div/div/span[2]/a'\n```\n**Note:**\n\nWhen you tell Scrapling to create a short selector, it tries to find a unique element to use in generation as a stop point, like an element with an `id` attribute, but in our case, there wasn't any, so that's why the short and the full selector will be the same.\n\n## Using selectors with regular expressions\nSimilar to `parsel`/`scrapy`, `re` and `re_first` methods are available for extracting data using regular expressions. However, unlike the former libraries, these methods are in nearly all classes like `Selector`/`Selectors`/`TextHandler` and `TextHandlers`, which means you can use them directly on the element even if you didn't select a text node.\n\nSee [TextHandler](main_classes.md#texthandler) for details on these methods.\n```python\n>>> page.css('.price_color')[0].re_first(r'[\\d\\.]+')\n'51.77'\n\n>>> page.css('.price_color').re_first(r'[\\d\\.]+')\n'51.77'\n\n>>> page.css('.price_color').re(r'[\\d\\.]+')\n['51.77',\n '53.74',\n '50.10',\n '47.82',\n '54.23',\n...]\n\n>>> page.css('.product_pod h3 a::attr(href)').re(r'catalogue/(.*)/index.html')\n['a-light-in-the-attic_1000',\n 'tipping-the-velvet_999',\n 'soumission_998',\n 'sharp-objects_997',\n...]\n\n>>> filtering_function = lambda e: e.parent.tag == 'h3' and e.parent.parent.has_class('product_pod') # As above selector\n>>> page.find('a', filtering_function).attrib['href'].re(r'catalogue/(.*)/index.html')\n['a-light-in-the-attic_1000']\n\n>>> page.find_by_text('Tipping the Velvet').attrib['href'].re(r'catalogue/(.*)/index.html')\n['tipping-the-velvet_999']\n```\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":24754,"content_sha256":"1f558ce3162d2e24f19919c11fc2600b7d2515958ddc6cf051a1bc55ca0695de"},{"filename":"references/spiders/advanced.md","content":"# Advanced usages\n\n## Concurrency Control\n\nThe spider system uses three class attributes to control how aggressively it crawls:\n\n| Attribute | Default | Description |\n|----------------------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `concurrent_requests` | `4` | Maximum number of requests being processed at the same time |\n| `concurrent_requests_per_domain` | `0` | Maximum concurrent requests per domain (0 = no per-domain limit) |\n| `download_delay` | `0.0` | Seconds to wait before each request |\n| `robots_txt_obey` | `False` | Respect robots.txt rules (Disallow, Crawl-delay, Request-rate) |\n\n```python\nclass PoliteSpider(Spider):\n name = \"polite\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n # Be gentle with the server\n concurrent_requests = 4\n concurrent_requests_per_domain = 2\n download_delay = 1.0 # Wait 1 second between requests\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nWhen `concurrent_requests_per_domain` is set, each domain gets its own concurrency limiter in addition to the global limit. This is useful when crawling multiple domains simultaneously, as you can allow high global concurrency while being polite to each individual domain.\n\n**Tip:**\n\nThe `download_delay` parameter adds a fixed wait before every request, regardless of the domain. Use it for simple rate limiting.\n\n## AutoThrottle\n\nA fixed `download_delay` is a guess: too low and you get banned, too high and the crawl takes all night. AutoThrottle replaces the guess by watching how fast the website actually answers, then adjusting the delay of each domain on its own, so it speeds up on fast servers and backs off on slow or hostile ones.\n\n| Attribute | Default | Description |\n|------------------------------------|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `autothrottle_enabled` | `False` | Turn the adaptive delay on |\n| `autothrottle_start_delay` | `5.0` | The delay used for the first request to a domain |\n| `autothrottle_max_delay` | `60.0` | The highest delay the throttle is allowed to reach |\n| `autothrottle_target_concurrency` | `None` | How many requests to aim for per domain (see below) |\n| `autothrottle_block_backoff` | `True` | Double the delay of a domain every time it blocks you |\n\n```python\nclass AdaptiveSpider(Spider):\n name = \"adaptive\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n concurrent_requests = 8\n concurrent_requests_per_domain = 1\n\n autothrottle_enabled = True\n autothrottle_start_delay = 2.0\n autothrottle_max_delay = 30.0\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nAfter every response, the delay moves toward the time the server itself took to answer, so a site responding in 0.5 seconds settles around a 0.5-second delay, which is roughly one request in flight at a time. How many requests it aims for per domain is resolved in this order: `autothrottle_target_concurrency` when you set it, otherwise `concurrent_requests_per_domain`, otherwise 1. So you usually don't set it at all, since the per-domain limit you already configured is used as the target, and the delay is divided by it. Latency spikes apply immediately instead of being averaged in, so the spider backs off the moment a server starts struggling and only speeds up gradually.\n\n### Backing off when blocked\n\nLatency alone can't see rate limiting. A `429`, a `403`, or a captcha page usually comes back *faster* than real content, which on latency alone looks like an invitation to go quicker. So anything that isn't a healthy response, meaning a non-2xx status or a response your `is_blocked()` flags, **doubles** that domain's delay instead:\n\n```\n0.5s -> 1s -> 2s -> 4s -> 8s ... (up to autothrottle_max_delay)\n```\n\nThe spider keeps slowing down for as long as the website keeps refusing it, and once healthy responses come back the normal averaging walks the delay down again toward the server's real speed, so it recovers on its own without you restarting anything.\n\nWhen the website says exactly how long to wait with a `Retry-After` header, on either a `429` or a `503`, that value is used instead of the doubling. Both the numeric form (`Retry-After: 120`) and the HTTP-date form are understood.\n\nSet `autothrottle_block_backoff = False` to turn this off and go back to plain latency-driven throttling, where a block can only stop the spider from speeding up.\n\nThe final delay per domain is available in the stats:\n\n```python\nresult = AdaptiveSpider().start()\nprint(result.stats.autothrottle_delays) # {'example.com': 0.62}\n```\n\n**Notes:**\n\n* `download_delay` and robots.txt delays act as a floor, but `autothrottle_max_delay` also caps that floor. Set the maximum at least as high as the configured or robots.txt delay you need to honor.\n* `concurrent_requests_per_domain` does double duty here: it caps how many requests may be in flight to a domain and doubles as AutoThrottle's target, so there's usually no separate target to configure. Setting it is recommended, because while a throttled domain sleeps it holds a slot of the global limiter, and leaving the per-domain limit unlimited means those sleeping slots come out of the budget shared with every other domain.\n* The measured latency is the full fetch, so it includes any internal retries and, for browser sessions, the page render time.\n* `autothrottle_max_delay` caps everything, including `Retry-After`. If a website asks for longer than your ceiling, raise `autothrottle_max_delay` to honor it.\n* The learned delays are not checkpointed. After a pause and resume, each domain starts again from `autothrottle_start_delay`.\n\n## Using uvloop\n\nThe `start()` method accepts a `use_uvloop` parameter to use the faster [uvloop](https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop)/[winloop](https://github.com/nicktimko/winloop) event loop implementation, if available:\n\n```python\nresult = MySpider().start(use_uvloop=True)\n```\n\nThis can improve throughput for I/O-heavy crawls. You'll need to install `uvloop` (Linux/macOS) or `winloop` (Windows) separately.\n\n## Pause & Resume\n\nThe spider supports graceful pause-and-resume via checkpointing. To enable it, pass a `crawldir` directory to the spider constructor:\n\n```python\nspider = MySpider(crawldir=\"crawl_data/my_spider\")\nresult = spider.start()\n\nif result.paused:\n print(\"Crawl was paused. Run again to resume.\")\nelse:\n print(\"Crawl completed!\")\n```\n\n### How It Works\n\n1. **Pausing**: Press `Ctrl+C` during a crawl. The spider waits for all in-flight requests to finish, saves a checkpoint (pending requests + a set of seen request fingerprints), and then exits.\n2. **Force stopping**: Press `Ctrl+C` a second time to stop immediately without waiting for active tasks.\n3. **Resuming**: Run the spider again with the same `crawldir`. It detects the checkpoint, restores the queue and seen set, and continues from where it left off, skipping `start_requests()`.\n4. **Cleanup**: When a crawl completes normally (not paused), the checkpoint files are deleted automatically.\n\n**Checkpoints are also saved periodically during the crawl (every 5 minutes by default).**\n\nYou can change the interval as follows:\n\n```python\n# Save checkpoint every 2 minutes\nspider = MySpider(crawldir=\"crawl_data/my_spider\", interval=120.0)\n```\n\nCheckpoint writes use a temporary file and replace the previous checkpoint only after the write succeeds.\n\n**Warning: Checkpoint data**\n\nWhen you enable `crawldir`, values in pending requests, including `meta` and request arguments, must be saveable with Python's `pickle` module. If a value cannot be saved, the checkpoint fails and the crawl stops. A `Selector` can work in a callback but cannot be saved this way.\n\nStore extracted values, such as strings or numbers, instead of `Selector` objects. Lists and dictionaries must also contain only saveable values:\n\n```python\nyield response.follow(\"/details\", meta={\"title\": str(response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"))})\n```\n\n**Tip:**\n\nWith `start()`, pressing `Ctrl+C` during a crawl causes the spider to close gracefully, even if the checkpoint system is not enabled. Doing it again without waiting forces the spider to close immediately.\n\n### Knowing If You're Resuming\n\nThe `on_start()` hook receives a `resuming` flag:\n\n```python\nasync def on_start(self, resuming: bool = False):\n if resuming:\n self.logger.info(\"Resuming from checkpoint!\")\n else:\n self.logger.info(\"Starting fresh crawl\")\n```\n\n## Development Mode\n\nWhen you're iterating on a spider's `parse()` logic, re-hitting the target servers on every run is slow and noisy. Development mode caches every response to disk on the first run and replays them from disk on subsequent runs, so you can tweak your selectors and re-run the spider as many times as you want without fetching those pages again.\n\nEnable it by setting `development_mode = True` on your spider:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n development_mode = True\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nThe first run fetches normally and stores each response on disk. Every subsequent run serves the same requests from the cache, skipping the page fetch. With `robots_txt_obey=True`, robots.txt checks run before cache lookup.\n\n### Cache Location\n\nBy default, responses are cached in `.scrapling_cache/{spider.name}/` relative to the current working directory (where you ran the spider from, **not** where the spider script lives). You can override the location with `development_cache_dir`:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n development_mode = True\n development_cache_dir = \"/tmp/my_spider_cache\"\n```\n\n### How It Works\n\n1. **Cache key**: Each response is keyed by the request's fingerprint, so any change to fingerprint-affecting attributes (`fp_include_kwargs`, `fp_include_headers`, `fp_keep_fragments`) will produce a fresh fetch.\n2. **Storage format**: One JSON file per response, named `{fingerprint_hex}.json`. The body is base64-encoded so binary content is preserved exactly. Writes are atomic (temp file + rename).\n3. **Replay**: On a cache hit, the engine skips the page fetch, including `download_delay`, rate limiting, and the `is_blocked()` retry path. The cached response goes straight to your callback.\n4. **Stats**: Cached requests still count toward `requests_count`, `response_bytes`, and the per-status counters, so your stat output looks the same as a normal crawl. Two extra counters, `cache_hits` and `cache_misses`, let you see how the cache performed.\n\n### Clearing the Cache\n\nThere's no automatic expiration. To force a fresh crawl, delete the cache directory or call the manager's `clear()` method directly.\n\n**Warning:**\n\nDevelopment mode is meant for development, not production. Cached responses never expire, and replay bypasses rate limiting and blocked-request retries. Don't ship a spider with `development_mode = True`.\n\n## Streaming\n\nFor long-running spiders or applications that need real-time access to scraped items, use the `stream()` method instead of `start()`:\n\n```python\nimport anyio\n\nasync def main():\n spider = MySpider()\n async for item in spider.stream():\n print(f\"Got item: {item}\")\n # Access real-time stats\n print(f\"Items so far: {spider.stats.items_scraped}\")\n print(f\"Requests made: {spider.stats.requests_count}\")\n\nanyio.run(main)\n```\n\nKey differences from `start()`:\n\n- `stream()` must be called from an async context\n- Items are yielded one by one as they're scraped, not collected into a list\n- You can access `spider.stats` during iteration for real-time statistics\n\n**Abstract:**\n\nThe full list of all stats that can be accessed by `spider.stats` is explained below [here](#results-statistics)\n\nYou can use it with the checkpoint system too, so it's easy to build UI on top of spiders. UIs that have real-time data and can be paused/resumed.\n\n```python\nimport anyio\n\nasync def main():\n spider = MySpider(crawldir=\"crawl_data/my_spider\")\n async for item in spider.stream():\n print(f\"Got item: {item}\")\n # Access real-time stats\n print(f\"Items so far: {spider.stats.items_scraped}\")\n print(f\"Requests made: {spider.stats.requests_count}\")\n\nanyio.run(main)\n```\nYou can also use `spider.pause()` to shut down the spider in the code above. If you used it without enabling the checkpoint system, it will just close the crawl.\n\n## Lifecycle Hooks\n\nThe spider provides several hooks you can override to add custom behavior at different stages of the crawl:\n\n### on_start\n\nCalled before crawling begins. Use it for setup tasks like loading data or initializing resources:\n\n```python\nasync def on_start(self, resuming: bool = False):\n self.logger.info(\"Spider starting up\")\n # Load seed URLs from a database, initialize counters, etc.\n```\n\n### on_close\n\nCalled after crawling finishes (whether completed or paused). Use it for cleanup:\n\n```python\nasync def on_close(self):\n self.logger.info(\"Spider shutting down\")\n # Close database connections, flush buffers, etc.\n```\n\n### on_error\n\nCalled when a request fails with an exception. Use it for error tracking or custom recovery logic:\n\n```python\nasync def on_error(self, request: Request, error: Exception):\n self.logger.error(f\"Failed: {request.url} - {error}\")\n # Log to error tracker, save failed URL for later, etc.\n```\n\n### on_scraped_item\n\nCalled for every scraped item before it's added to the results. Return the item (modified or not) to keep it, or return `None` to drop it:\n\n```python\nasync def on_scraped_item(self, item: dict) -> dict | None:\n # Drop items without a title\n if not item.get(\"title\"):\n return None\n\n # Modify items (e.g., add timestamps)\n item[\"scraped_at\"] = \"2026-01-01\"\n return item\n```\n\n**Tip:**\n\nThis hook can also be used to direct items through your own pipelines and drop them from the spider.\n\n### start_requests\n\nOverride `start_requests()` for custom initial request generation instead of using `start_urls`:\n\n```python\nasync def start_requests(self):\n # POST request to log in first\n yield Request(\n \"https://example.com/login\",\n method=\"POST\",\n data={\"user\": \"admin\", \"pass\": \"secret\"},\n callback=self.after_login,\n )\n\nasync def after_login(self, response: Response):\n # Now crawl the authenticated pages\n yield response.follow(\"/dashboard\", callback=self.parse)\n```\n\n## Results & Statistics\n\nThe `CrawlResult` returned by `start()` contains both the scraped items and detailed statistics:\n\n```python\nresult = MySpider().start()\n\n# Items\nprint(f\"Total items: {len(result.items)}\")\nresult.items.to_json(\"output.json\", indent=True)\n\n# Did the crawl complete?\nprint(f\"Completed: {result.completed}\")\nprint(f\"Paused: {result.paused}\")\n\n# Statistics\nstats = result.stats\nprint(f\"Requests: {stats.requests_count}\")\nprint(f\"Failed: {stats.failed_requests_count}\")\nprint(f\"Blocked: {stats.blocked_requests_count}\")\nprint(f\"Offsite filtered: {stats.offsite_requests_count}\")\nprint(f\"Robots.txt disallowed: {stats.robots_disallowed_count}\")\nprint(f\"Cache hits: {stats.cache_hits}\")\nprint(f\"Cache misses: {stats.cache_misses}\")\nprint(f\"Items scraped: {stats.items_scraped}\")\nprint(f\"Items dropped: {stats.items_dropped}\")\nprint(f\"Response bytes: {stats.response_bytes}\")\nprint(f\"Duration: {stats.elapsed_seconds:.1f}s\")\nprint(f\"Speed: {stats.requests_per_second:.1f} req/s\")\n```\n\n### Detailed Stats\n\nThe `CrawlStats` object tracks granular information:\n\n```python\nstats = result.stats\n\n# Status code distribution\nprint(stats.response_status_count)\n# {'status_200': 150, 'status_404': 3, 'status_403': 1}\n\n# Bytes downloaded per domain\nprint(stats.domains_response_bytes)\n# {'example.com': 1234567, 'api.example.com': 45678}\n\n# Requests per session\nprint(stats.sessions_requests_count)\n# {'http': 120, 'stealth': 34}\n\n# Proxies used during the crawl\nprint(stats.proxies)\n# ['http://proxy1:8080', 'http://proxy2:8080']\n\n# Log level counts\nprint(stats.log_levels_counter)\n# {'debug': 200, 'info': 50, 'warning': 3, 'error': 1, 'critical': 0}\n\n# Timing information\nprint(stats.start_time) # Unix timestamp when crawl started\nprint(stats.end_time) # Unix timestamp when crawl finished\nprint(stats.download_delay) # The download delay used (seconds)\n\n# Concurrency settings used\nprint(stats.concurrent_requests) # Global concurrency limit\nprint(stats.concurrent_requests_per_domain) # Per-domain concurrency limit\n\n# AutoThrottle\nprint(stats.autothrottle_enabled) # Whether the adaptive delay was on\nprint(stats.autothrottle_delays) # Final delay per domain, {'example.com': 0.62}\n\n# Custom stats (set by your spider code)\nprint(stats.custom_stats)\n# {'login_attempts': 3, 'pages_with_errors': 5}\n\n# Export everything as a dict\nprint(stats.to_dict())\n```\n\n## Logging\n\nThe spider has a built-in logger accessible via `self.logger`. It's pre-configured with the spider's name and supports several customization options:\n\n| Attribute | Default | Description |\n|-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|\n| `logging_level` | `logging.DEBUG` | Minimum log level |\n| `logging_format` | `\"[%(asctime)s]:({spider_name}) %(levelname)s: %(message)s\"` | Log message format |\n| `logging_date_format` | `\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"` | Date format in log messages |\n| `log_file` | `None` | Path to a log file (in addition to console output) |\n\n```python\nimport logging\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n logging_level = logging.INFO\n log_file = \"logs/my_spider.log\"\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n self.logger.info(f\"Processing {response.url}\")\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nThe log file directory is created automatically if it doesn't exist. Both console and file output use the same format.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":18923,"content_sha256":"279d0fffed34b1ed1020e458c8dbce54b0576a9eb1bbeb594c611412b698e980"},{"filename":"references/spiders/architecture.md","content":"# Spiders architecture\n\nScrapling's spider system is a Scrapy-inspired async crawling framework designed for concurrent, multi-session crawls with built-in pause/resume support. It brings together Scrapling's parsing engine and fetchers into a unified crawling API while adding scheduling, concurrency control, and checkpointing.\n\n## Data Flow\n\nHere's what happens step by step when you run a spider without many details:\n\n1. The **Spider** produces the first batch of `Request` objects. By default, it creates one request for each URL in `start_urls`, but you can override `start_requests()` for custom logic.\n2. The **Scheduler** receives requests and places them in a priority queue, and creates fingerprints for them. Higher-priority requests are dequeued first.\n3. The **Crawler Engine** asks the **Scheduler** to dequeue the next request, respecting concurrency limits (global and per-domain) and download delays. If `robots_txt_obey` is enabled, the engine checks the domain's robots.txt rules before proceeding -- disallowed requests are dropped silently. Once the **Crawler Engine** receives the request, it passes it to the **Session Manager**, which routes it to the correct session based on the request's `sid` (session ID).\n4. The **session** fetches the page and returns a [Response](../fetching/choosing.md#response-object) object to the **Crawler Engine**. The engine records statistics and checks for blocked responses. If the response is blocked, the engine retries the request up to `max_blocked_retries` times. Of course, the blocking detection and the retry logic for blocked requests can be customized.\n5. The **Crawler Engine** passes the [Response](../fetching/choosing.md#response-object) to the request's callback. The callback either yields a dictionary, which gets treated as a scraped item, or a follow-up request, which gets sent to the scheduler for queuing.\n6. The cycle repeats from step 2 until the scheduler is empty and no tasks are active, or the spider is paused.\n7. If `crawldir` is set while starting the spider, the **Crawler Engine** periodically saves a checkpoint (pending requests + seen URLs set) to disk. On graceful shutdown (Ctrl+C), a final checkpoint is saved. The next time the spider runs with the same `crawldir`, it resumes from where it left off, skipping `start_requests()` and restoring the scheduler state.\n\n\n## Components\n\n### Spider\n\nThe central class you interact with. You subclass `Spider`, define your `start_urls` and `parse()` method, and optionally configure sessions and override lifecycle hooks.\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response, Request\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse_page)\n\n async def parse_page(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\n### Crawler Engine\n\nThe engine orchestrates the entire crawl. It manages the main loop, enforces concurrency limits, dispatches requests through the Session Manager, and processes results from callbacks. You don't interact with it directly - the `Spider.start()` and `Spider.stream()` methods handle it for you.\n\n### Scheduler\n\nA priority queue with built-in URL deduplication. Requests are fingerprinted based on their URL, HTTP method, body, and session ID. The scheduler supports `snapshot()` and `restore()` for the checkpoint system, allowing the crawl state to be saved and resumed.\n\n### Session Manager\n\nManages one or more named session instances. Each session is one of:\n\n- [FetcherSession](../fetching/static.md)\n- [AsyncStealthySession](../fetching/stealthy.md)\n\nWhen a request comes in, the Session Manager routes it to the correct session based on the request's `sid` field. Sessions can be started with the spider start (default) or lazily (started on the first use).\n\n### Checkpoint System\n\nAn optional system that, if enabled, saves the crawler's state (pending requests + seen URL fingerprints) to a pickle file on disk. Writes are atomic (temp file + rename) to prevent corruption. Checkpoints are saved periodically at a configurable interval and on graceful shutdown. Upon successful completion (not paused), checkpoint files are automatically cleaned up.\n\n### Response Cache\n\nAn optional cache that, when development mode is enabled, stores every fetched response on disk and replays it on subsequent runs. Each response is keyed by request fingerprint and serialized as JSON (with the body base64-encoded so binary content survives). It's meant for iterating on `parse()` logic without re-hitting the target servers, not for production use.\n\n### Output\n\nScraped items are collected in an `ItemList` (a list subclass with `to_json()`, `to_jsonl()`, `to_csv()`, and `to_xml()` export methods). Crawl statistics are tracked in a `CrawlStats` dataclass which contains a lot of useful info.\n\n\n## Comparison with Scrapy\n\nIf you're coming from Scrapy, here's how Scrapling's spider system maps:\n\n| Concept | Scrapy | Scrapling |\n|--------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Spider definition | `scrapy.Spider` subclass | `scrapling.spiders.Spider` subclass |\n| Initial requests | `start_requests()` | `async start_requests()` |\n| Callbacks | `def parse(self, response)` | `async def parse(self, response)` |\n| Following links | `response.follow(url)` | `response.follow(url)` |\n| Item output | `yield dict` or `yield Item` | `yield dict` |\n| Request scheduling | Scheduler + Dupefilter | Scheduler with built-in deduplication |\n| Downloading | Downloader + Middlewares | Session Manager with multi-session support |\n| Item processing | Item Pipelines | `on_scraped_item()` hook |\n| Blocked detection | Through custom middlewares | Built-in `is_blocked()` + `retry_blocked_request()` hooks |\n| Concurrency | `CONCURRENT_REQUESTS` setting | `concurrent_requests` class attribute |\n| Domain filtering | `allowed_domains` | `allowed_domains` |\n| Robots.txt | `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting | `robots_txt_obey` class attribute |\n| Pause/Resume | `JOBDIR` setting | `crawldir` constructor argument |\n| Export | Feed exports | `result.items.to_json()` / `to_jsonl()` / `to_csv()` / `to_xml()` or custom through hooks |\n| Running | `scrapy crawl spider_name` | `MySpider().start()` |\n| Streaming | N/A | `async for item in spider.stream()` |\n| Multi-session | N/A | Multiple sessions with different types per spider |\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":7448,"content_sha256":"ac24904d1bc4867fc51656456ade695e6c2245ac34278612aa0f1a7548ae6cc9"},{"filename":"references/spiders/generic-templates.md","content":"# Generic Spider Templates\n\nMost crawls fall into one of two patterns: \"follow links matching this pattern\" or \"crawl every URL listed in the site's sitemap\". Scrapling ships templates for both so you don't have to hand-write the same `parse()` boilerplate every time.\n\n`CrawlSpider` and `SitemapSpider` build on `LinkExtractor`, which pulls URLs out of a `Response` (or filters a single URL via `matches()`). `SitemapSpider` additionally parses sitemap.xml / sitemap_index.xml bodies internally (gzip-compressed or not).\n\nYou can use `LinkExtractor` directly inside any plain `Spider.parse()`. The templates just save you the wiring.\n\n## CrawlSpider\n\n`CrawlSpider` follows links automatically based on declarative rules.\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import CrawlSpider, CrawlRule, LinkExtractor\n\nclass QuotesSpider(CrawlSpider):\n name = \"blog\"\n start_urls = [\"https://quotes.toscrape.com/\"]\n\n def rules(self):\n return [\n CrawlRule(LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/author/\"), callback=self.parse_author),\n CrawlRule(LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/page/\\d+/\")), # follow pagination, no callback\n ]\n\n async def parse_author(self, response):\n yield {\n '.author-title': response.css('.author-title::text').get(),\n \"birthday\": response.css('.author-born-date::text').get(),\n \"url\": response.url,\n }\n\nresult = QuotesSpider().start()\n```\n\nA `CrawlRule` pairs a `LinkExtractor` with an optional `callback` (a bound method on the spider), an optional `priority` override for the dispatched `Request`, and an optional `process_request` (a bound method that mutates each `Request` before it's yielded). The default `parse()` runs every rule against every response and yields a `Request` per matched URL.\n\nIf a rule has no callback, the matched URLs fall through to the spider's default `parse()`. This is convenient for pagination: extract the next-page links to keep the crawl going, without needing a separate handler.\n\n### Crawl order\n\nSet `crawl_strategy` on `CrawlSpider` or its subclasses, including `ContentSpider`, to choose the next pending request:\n\n| `crawl_strategy` | Order within the same `Request.priority` |\n|------------------|------------------------------------------|\n| `\"bfs\"` (default) | Oldest queued request first |\n| `\"dfs\"` | Newest queued request first |\n\nThe scheduler takes pending requests with higher `Request.priority` first. The strategy only orders requests with equal priority.\n\nSet `concurrent_requests = 1` to process one request at a time in the selected queue order. Duplicate URLs are still filtered; finding a URL again does not move its queued request. With parallel requests, pages can finish in a different order, and levels or branches can overlap.\n\nKeep the same `crawl_strategy` when resuming from a checkpoint.\n\n### Combining rules with custom logic\n\nOverride `parse()` and call `super().parse(response)` to get the rule behavior plus your own yields:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(CrawlSpider):\n def rules(self):\n return [CrawlRule(LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/posts/\"), callback=self.parse_post)]\n\n async def parse(self, response):\n yield {\"page_url\": response.url}\n async for req in super().parse(response):\n yield req\n```\n\n### Mutating Requests with `process_request`\n\n```python\ndef add_priority(self, request, response):\n request.priority = 10\n return request\n\ndef rules(self):\n return [CrawlRule(\n LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/posts/\"),\n callback=self.parse_post,\n process_request=self.add_priority,\n )]\n```\n\n## SitemapSpider\n\n`SitemapSpider` seeds a crawl from sitemap.xml URLs. It uses the same `rules()` API as `CrawlSpider`, so the mental model is shared.\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import SitemapSpider, CrawlRule, LinkExtractor\n\nclass MySitemap(SitemapSpider):\n name = \"sm\"\n sitemap_urls = [\"https://example.com/sitemap.xml\"]\n\n def rules(self):\n return [\n CrawlRule(LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/posts/\"), callback=self.parse_post),\n CrawlRule(LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/products/\"), callback=self.parse_product),\n ]\n\n async def parse_post(self, response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get()}\n\n async def parse_product(self, response):\n yield {\"sku\": response.css(\".sku::text\").get()}\n\nresult = MySitemap().start()\n```\n\n### How URLs are dispatched\n\nFor each URL in the sitemap, `SitemapSpider` checks every rule's `LinkExtractor.matches(url)` in order. The first matching rule wins, and a `Request` is yielded with that rule's callback. If no rule matches and `rules()` is non-empty, the URL is dropped. If `rules()` returns an empty list, every URL is routed to the spider's `parse()` method, which raises `NotImplementedError` by default if not overridden.\n\n### Sitemap indexes\n\nWhen `SitemapSpider` encounters a `\u003csitemapindex>` (a sitemap of sitemaps), it descends into each child sitemap automatically. To filter which child sitemaps to descend into, set `sitemap_follow` to a `LinkExtractor`:\n\n```python\nclass MySitemap(SitemapSpider):\n name = \"sm\"\n sitemap_urls = [\"https://example.com/sitemap.xml\"]\n sitemap_follow = LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/posts-sitemap-\\d+\\.xml\") # only post sitemaps\n```\n\n### Robots.txt support\n\nPut a `robots.txt` URL directly in `sitemap_urls` and `SitemapSpider` will detect it, extract every sitemap shown, and follow each one:\n\n```python\nclass MySitemap(SitemapSpider):\n name = \"sm\"\n sitemap_urls = [\"https://example.com/robots.txt\"]\n```\n\n### Alternate-language URLs\n\nSet `sitemap_alternate_links = True` to also dispatch `\u003cxhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"...\">` URLs through your rules.\n\n## XMLFeedSpider\n\n`XMLFeedSpider` iterates over the nodes of an XML feed (RSS, Atom, product feeds, etc.). Set `itertag` to the node name you want (default: `\"item\"`) and override `parse_node()`, which is called once per matching node:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import XMLFeedSpider\n\nclass RSSSpider(XMLFeedSpider):\n name = \"rss\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com/feed.xml\"]\n itertag = \"item\"\n\n async def parse_node(self, response, node):\n yield {\n \"title\": node.findtext(\"title\"),\n \"link\": node.findtext(\"link\"),\n \"date\": node.findtext(\"pubDate\"),\n }\n\nresult = RSSSpider().start()\n```\n\nLike the other callbacks, `parse_node()` can also yield `Request` objects (for example, `response.follow(node.findtext(\"link\"), callback=self.parse_post)`) to crawl into the pages the feed points to.\n\n### How nodes are matched and parsed\n\nEach node passed to `parse_node()` is an `lxml` element with all namespaces stripped, so `node.findtext(\"title\")`, `node.find(\"thumbnail\").get(\"url\")`, and case-sensitive `node.xpath(...)` work on any feed without namespace maps. A plain `itertag` like `\"entry\"` matches nodes by name regardless of their namespace, which is what you want for Atom and most namespaced feeds. To match a node in one specific namespace, use a prefixed `itertag` and define the prefix in `namespaces`:\n\n```python\nclass ThumbnailSpider(XMLFeedSpider):\n name = \"thumbs\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com/feed.xml\"]\n itertag = \"media:thumbnail\"\n namespaces = ((\"media\", \"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/\"),)\n\n async def parse_node(self, response, node):\n yield {\"thumbnail\": node.get(\"url\")}\n```\n\nGzipped feeds (`.xml.gz` or served with a gzip content-type) are decompressed automatically with the same protections the sitemap spider uses, and malformed XML logs a warning instead of crashing the crawl.\n\n## CSVFeedSpider\n\n`CSVFeedSpider` iterates over the rows of a CSV feed. Override `parse_row()`, which receives each row as a dictionary keyed by the column names:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import CSVFeedSpider\n\nclass PriceSpider(CSVFeedSpider):\n name = \"prices\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com/products.csv\"]\n\n async def parse_row(self, response, row):\n yield {\"product\": row[\"title\"], \"price\": float(row[\"price\"])}\n\nresult = PriceSpider().start()\n```\n\nBy default, the first row of the feed is used as the header. If the feed has no header row, set `headers` to the column names yourself, and use `delimiter`/`quotechar` for feeds that don't follow the standard comma format:\n\n```python\nclass PriceSpider(CSVFeedSpider):\n name = \"prices\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com/products.csv\"]\n headers = [\"title\", \"price\", \"url\"]\n delimiter = \";\"\n```\n\nGzipped feeds are decompressed automatically here as well, as shown above for **XMLFeedSpider**.\n\n## ContentSpider\n\n`ContentSpider` builds on **CrawlSpider** to crawl a website and convert every page to clean, LLM-ready Markdown, yielding one item per page and optionally writing one Markdown file per page:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import ContentSpider\n\nclass DocsSpider(ContentSpider):\n name = \"docs\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com/docs/\"]\n allowed_domains = {\"example.com\"}\n output_dir = \"docs_markdown\"\n\nresult = DocsSpider().start()\n```\n\nIt requires `allowed_domains` to keep the crawl bound to the target website. The full guide, including all its options and how to feed the output to RAG pipelines, is on the [Building RAG systems](../building-rag-systems.md) page.\n\n## Using `LinkExtractor` directly\n\nYou don't have to use the templates. `LinkExtractor` works inside any plain `Spider`:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, LinkExtractor\n\nclass CustomSpider(Spider):\n name = \"custom\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n def __init__(self):\n super().__init__()\n self._links = LinkExtractor(allow=r\"/posts/\", deny_domains=\"ads.example.com\")\n\n async def parse(self, response):\n for url in self._links.extract(response):\n yield response.follow(url, callback=self.parse_post)\n\n async def parse_post(self, response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get()}\n```\n\n## LinkExtractor reference\n\n| Argument | Default | Description |\n|-------------------|----------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `allow` | `()` | URL patterns to keep. Empty means \"match all\". String, compiled `Pattern`, or iterable of either. |\n| `deny` | `()` | URL patterns to drop. Always overrides `allow`. |\n| `allow_domains` | `()` | Hostnames to keep. Subdomains match automatically (`example.com` matches `api.example.com`). |\n| `deny_domains` | `()` | Hostnames to drop. |\n| `restrict_css` | `()` | CSS selectors that scope DOM extraction to a region. |\n| `restrict_xpath` | `()` | XPath selectors that scope DOM extraction to a region. |\n| `tags` | `(\"a\", \"area\")` | Element tags to look for links in. |\n| `attrs` | `(\"href\",)` | Attributes on those tags to read URLs from. |\n| `canonicalize` | `True` | Sort query params and normalize the path. |\n| `strip` | `True` | Strip whitespace from extracted URLs. |\n| `keep_fragment` | `False` | Preserve the `#fragment` when canonicalizing. |\n| `deny_extensions` | `IGNORED_EXTENSIONS` | File extensions to drop (pdf, zip, images, video, etc.). |\n| `process` | `None` | Optional callable applied to each extracted URL before filtering. Return a falsy value to drop. |\n\n`LinkExtractor.extract(response)` returns a `list[str]` of absolute, filtered, deduped URLs.\n\n`LinkExtractor.matches(url)` returns a `bool` - the URL-only filter (allow/deny/domain/extension), used by `SitemapSpider` to dispatch URLs without a `Response`.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":12419,"content_sha256":"18177ecb7fe26a974bc7fb9cc0d20411f98e3e92dc7f18da78ca504361e14b11"},{"filename":"references/spiders/getting-started.md","content":"# Getting started\n\n## Introduction\n\nThe spider system lets you build concurrent, multi-page crawlers in just a few lines of code.\n\n## Your First Spider\n\nA spider is a class that defines how to crawl and extract data from websites. Here's the simplest possible spider:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\n\nclass QuotesSpider(Spider):\n name = \"quotes\"\n start_urls = [\"https://quotes.toscrape.com\"]\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for quote in response.css(\"div.quote\"):\n yield {\n \"text\": quote.css(\"span.text::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"author\": quote.css(\"small.author::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n```\n\nEvery spider needs three things:\n\n1. **`name`** - A unique identifier for the spider.\n2. **`start_urls`** - A list of URLs to start crawling from.\n3. **`parse()`** - An async generator method that processes each response and yields results.\n\nThe `parse()` method is where the magic happens. You use the same selection methods you'd use with Scrapling's [Selector](../parsing/main_classes.md#selector)/[Response](../fetching/choosing.md#response-object), and `yield` dictionaries to output scraped items.\n\n## Running the Spider\n\nTo run your spider, create an instance and call `start()`:\n\n```python\nresult = QuotesSpider().start()\n```\n\nThe `start()` method handles all the async machinery internally, so no need to worry about event loops. While the spider is running, everything that happens is logged to the terminal, and at the end of the crawl, you get very detailed stats.\n\nThose stats are in the returned `CrawlResult` object, which gives you everything you need:\n\n```python\nresult = QuotesSpider().start()\n\n# Access scraped items\nfor item in result.items:\n print(item[\"text\"], \"-\", item[\"author\"])\n\n# Check statistics\nprint(f\"Scraped {result.stats.items_scraped} items\")\nprint(f\"Made {result.stats.requests_count} requests\")\nprint(f\"Took {result.stats.elapsed_seconds:.1f} seconds\")\n\n# Did the crawl finish or was it paused?\nprint(f\"Completed: {result.completed}\")\n```\n\n## Following Links\n\nMost crawls need to follow links across multiple pages. Use `response.follow()` to create follow-up requests:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\n\nclass QuotesSpider(Spider):\n name = \"quotes\"\n start_urls = [\"https://quotes.toscrape.com\"]\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Extract items from the current page\n for quote in response.css(\"div.quote\"):\n yield {\n \"text\": quote.css(\"span.text::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"author\": quote.css(\"small.author::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n\n # Follow the \"next page\" link\n next_page = response.css(\"li.next a::attr(href)\").get()\n if next_page:\n yield response.follow(next_page, callback=self.parse)\n```\n\n`response.follow()` handles relative URLs automatically by joining them with the current page's URL. It also sets the current page as the `Referer` header by default.\n\nYou can point follow-up requests at different callback methods for different page types:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a.product-link::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse_product)\n\nasync def parse_product(self, response: Response):\n yield {\n \"name\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"price\": response.css(\".price::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n```\n\n**Note:**\n\nAll callback methods must be async generators (using `async def` and `yield`).\n\n## Exporting Data\n\nThe `ItemList` returned in `result.items` has built-in export methods:\n\n```python\nresult = QuotesSpider().start()\n\n# Export as JSON\nresult.items.to_json(\"quotes.json\")\n\n# Export as JSON with pretty-printing\nresult.items.to_json(\"quotes.json\", indent=True)\n\n# Export as JSON Lines (one JSON object per line)\nresult.items.to_jsonl(\"quotes.jsonl\")\n\n# Export as CSV or XML\nresult.items.to_csv(\"quotes.csv\")\nresult.items.to_xml(\"quotes.xml\")\n```\n\nAll of them create parent directories automatically if they don't exist.\n\n`to_csv()` writes a column for every key found across your items, so items that don't all share the same keys are still exported with the missing cells left empty. Pass `fields=[...]` to pick the columns and their order yourself, or `delimiter=\"\\t\"` for a TSV file. `to_xml()` wraps each item in an `\u003citem>` element inside an `\u003citems>` root, both renameable through `root_tag` and `item_tag`.\n\nIn both formats, values that aren't simple scalars (a nested dictionary or a list) are written as JSON so nothing is silently dropped.\n\n## Filtering Domains\n\nUse `allowed_domains` to restrict the spider to specific domains. This prevents it from accidentally following links to external websites:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n allowed_domains = {\"example.com\"}\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a::attr(href)\").getall():\n # Links to other domains are silently dropped\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse)\n```\n\nSubdomains are matched automatically, so setting `allowed_domains = {\"example.com\"}` also allows `sub.example.com`, `blog.example.com`, etc.\n\nWhen a request is filtered out, it's counted in `stats.offsite_requests_count` so you can see how many were dropped.\n\n## Robots.txt Compliance\n\nSet `robots_txt_obey = True` to make the spider respect robots.txt rules before crawling any domain:\n\n```python\nclass PoliteSpider(Spider):\n name = \"polite\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n robots_txt_obey = True\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse)\n```\n\nWhen enabled, the spider will:\n\n1. **Pre-fetch robots.txt** for all domains in `start_urls` before the crawl begins (concurrently).\n2. **Check every request** against the domain's robots.txt `Disallow` rules. Disallowed requests are silently dropped and counted in `stats.robots_disallowed_count`.\n3. **Respect `Crawl-delay` and `Request-rate` directives** by taking the maximum of the directive and your configured `download_delay`. This means robots.txt delays never reduce your configured delay, only increase it when needed. When AutoThrottle is enabled, its maximum delay also caps this value. Set `autothrottle_max_delay` high enough to honor the required delay.\n\nRobots.txt files are fetched using the spider's default session and cached per domain for the entire crawl. Domains discovered mid-crawl (not in `start_urls`) have their robots.txt fetched on the first request to that domain.\n\n**Note:** `robots_txt_obey` is turned off by default to avoid surprising behavior. If you enable it, it does not affect your concurrency settings (`concurrent_requests`, `concurrent_requests_per_domain`) -- only the delay between requests is adjusted.\n\nIf you don't want to pick a `download_delay` by hand, set `autothrottle_enabled = True` and the spider will tune the delay of every domain on its own from how fast it responds, backing off when it gets blocked. See [AutoThrottle](advanced.md#autothrottle).\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":7260,"content_sha256":"bb339e385338bf4fe3ed9cb72c75f4982b245311f28d607dc3290af00722d069"},{"filename":"references/spiders/platform-templates.md","content":"# Platform Spider Templates\n\nGeneric templates cover crawl *patterns* (follow links, walk sitemaps). Platform templates cover *platforms*: site builders that expose the same machine-readable structure across many independent websites, so the spider already knows where the data lives. You only point it at a domain.\n\n## ShopifySpider\n\n`ShopifySpider` extracts every product from any Shopify-powered store through Shopify's JSON API, without touching the website's HTML.\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import ShopifySpider\n\nclass MyStore(ShopifySpider):\n target_website = \"example.com\"\n\nresult = MyStore().start()\nprint(result.items[0])\n```\n\nSet `target_website` to the store's domain. When it's empty, the spider falls back to the first entry in `start_urls`, then `allowed_domains`, and raises `ValueError` if all three are empty. Full URLs are normalized to their domain automatically.\n\n### How it works\n\n1. Pages through `https://\u003cstore>/collections.json` (250 collections per page, the platform's cap).\n2. For every collection that reports products, pages through `/collections/\u003chandle>/products.json`.\n3. Yields one item per product variant, deduplicating variants that appear in multiple collections.\n\n### Item fields\n\n| Field | Source |\n|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `name` | Product title, plus the variant title when it isn't the default one |\n| `price` | Variant price (a string, exactly as Shopify returns it) |\n| `category` | Collection handle, title-cased (`summer-sale` becomes `Summer Sale`) |\n| `brand` | Product vendor |\n| `identifier` | Variant id |\n| `sku` | Variant SKU, or `\"\"` when the store doesn't set one |\n| `stock` | `None` when the variant is available, `0` when it's out of stock |\n| `image_url` | First product image, or `\"\"` |\n| `url` | The product's page inside the collection |\n| `description` | Product `body_html` with the HTML tags stripped |\n| `old_price` | `compare_at_price` when it's a real pre-sale price, else `\"\"` |\n| `barcode` | Variant barcode, or `\"\"` (most stores don't expose it in these endpoints) |\n\nThese fields are not mandatory; override the `_process_product()` method in your subclass to change the item structure or extract different fields from the product data.\n\n### Notes and limits\n\n- The JSON endpoints only expose products published to the online-store channel, so a collection's `products_count` can be higher than what's actually retrievable. The spider treats it as \"nonzero means fetch this collection\", never as an expected total.\n- This template most likely won't work on stores behind extra protections or password-protected ones, and if it can work at all, it will need a lot of overrides from your side.\n- Everything from `Spider` still applies: concurrency settings, delays, robots.txt compliance, checkpoints, and the lifecycle hooks.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":3306,"content_sha256":"0f557e46385d218b4c7976ea6763b0bb948fa2dc453b8bbf3ef33f07bf2fe88c"},{"filename":"references/spiders/proxy-blocking.md","content":"# Proxy management and handling Blocks\n\n## Introduction\n\nWhen scraping at scale, you'll often need to rotate through multiple proxies to avoid rate limits and blocks. Scrapling's `ProxyRotator` makes this straightforward. It works with all session types and integrates with the spider's blocked request retry system.\n\nIf you want to set up a proxy provider and don't know where to start, feel free to pick a random provider from our sponsors in the [README](https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling/blob/main/README.md#platinum-sponsors).\n\n## ProxyRotator\n\nThe `ProxyRotator` class manages a list of proxies and rotates through them automatically. Pass it to any session type via the `proxy_rotator` parameter:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession, ProxyRotator\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager):\n rotator = ProxyRotator([\n \"http://proxy1:8080\",\n \"http://proxy2:8080\",\n \"http://user:pass@proxy3:8080\",\n ])\n manager.add(\"default\", FetcherSession(proxy_rotator=rotator))\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Check which proxy was used\n print(f\"Proxy used: {response.meta.get('proxy')}\")\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nEach request automatically gets the next proxy in the rotation. The proxy used is stored in `response.meta[\"proxy\"]` so you can track which proxy fetched which page.\n\n\nWhen you use it with browser sessions, you will need some adjustments, like below:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import AsyncStealthySession, ProxyRotator\n\n# String proxies work for all session types\nrotator = ProxyRotator([\n \"http://proxy1:8080\",\n \"http://proxy2:8080\",\n])\n\n# Dict proxies (Playwright format) work for browser sessions\nrotator = ProxyRotator([\n {\"server\": \"http://proxy1:8080\", \"username\": \"user\", \"password\": \"pass\"},\n {\"server\": \"http://proxy2:8080\"},\n])\n\n# Then inside the spider\ndef configure_sessions(self, manager):\n rotator = ProxyRotator([\"http://proxy1:8080\", \"http://proxy2:8080\"])\n manager.add(\"browser\", AsyncStealthySession(proxy_rotator=rotator))\n```\n\n**Info:**\n\n1. You cannot use the `proxy_rotator` argument together with the static `proxy` or `proxies` parameters on the same session. Pick one approach when configuring the session, and override it per request later if you want.\n2. Remember that by default, all browser-based sessions use a persistent browser context with a pool of tabs. However, since browsers can't set a proxy per tab, when you use a `ProxyRotator`, the fetcher will automatically open a separate context for each proxy, with one tab per context. Once the tab's job is done, both the tab and its context are closed.\n\n## Custom Rotation Strategies\n\nBy default, `ProxyRotator` uses cyclic rotation, iterating through proxies sequentially and wrapping around at the end.\n\nYou can provide a custom strategy function to change this behavior, but it has to match the below signature:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.core._types import ProxyType\n\ndef my_strategy(proxies: list, current_index: int) -> tuple[ProxyType, int]:\n ...\n```\n\nIt receives the list of proxies and the current index, and must return the chosen proxy and the next index.\n\nBelow are some examples of custom rotation strategies you can use.\n\n### Random Rotation\n\n```python\nimport random\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import ProxyRotator\n\ndef random_strategy(proxies, current_index):\n idx = random.randint(0, len(proxies) - 1)\n return proxies[idx], idx\n\nrotator = ProxyRotator(\n [\"http://proxy1:8080\", \"http://proxy2:8080\", \"http://proxy3:8080\"],\n strategy=random_strategy,\n)\n```\n\n### Weighted Rotation\n\n```python\nimport random\n\ndef weighted_strategy(proxies, current_index):\n # First proxy gets 60% of traffic, others split the rest\n weights = [60] + [40 // (len(proxies) - 1)] * (len(proxies) - 1)\n proxy = random.choices(proxies, weights=weights, k=1)[0]\n return proxy, current_index # Index doesn't matter for weighted\n\nrotator = ProxyRotator(proxies, strategy=weighted_strategy)\n```\n\n\n## Per-Request Proxy Override\n\nYou can override the rotator for individual requests by passing `proxy=` as a keyword argument:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n # This request uses the rotator's next proxy\n yield response.follow(\"/page1\", callback=self.parse_page)\n\n # This request uses a specific proxy, bypassing the rotator\n yield response.follow(\n \"/special-page\",\n callback=self.parse_page,\n proxy=\"http://special-proxy:8080\",\n )\n```\n\nThis is useful when certain pages require a specific proxy (e.g., a geo-located proxy for region-specific content).\n\n## Blocked Request Handling\n\nThe spider has built-in blocked request detection and retry. By default, it considers the following HTTP status codes blocked: `401`, `403`, `407`, `429`, `444`, `500`, `502`, `503`, `504`.\n\nThe retry system works like this:\n\n1. After a response comes back, the spider calls the `is_blocked(response)` method.\n2. If blocked, it copies the request and calls the `retry_blocked_request()` method so you can modify it before retrying.\n3. The retried request is re-queued with `dont_filter=True` (bypassing deduplication) and lower priority, so it's not retried right away.\n4. This repeats up to `max_blocked_retries` times (default: 3).\n\n**Tip:**\n\n1. On retry, the previous `proxy`/`proxies` kwargs are cleared from the request automatically, so the rotator assigns a fresh proxy.\n2. The `max_blocked_retries` attribute is different than the session retries and doesn't share the counter.\n\n### Custom Block Detection\n\nOverride `is_blocked()` to add your own detection logic:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n async def is_blocked(self, response: Response) -> bool:\n # Check status codes (default behavior)\n if response.status in {403, 429, 503}:\n return True\n\n # Check response content\n body = response.body.decode(\"utf-8\", errors=\"ignore\")\n if \"access denied\" in body.lower() or \"rate limit\" in body.lower():\n return True\n\n return False\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\n### Customizing Retries\n\nOverride `retry_blocked_request()` to modify the request before retrying. The `max_blocked_retries` attribute controls how many times a blocked request is retried (default: 3):\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, SessionManager, Request, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession, AsyncStealthySession\n\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n max_blocked_retries = 5\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager: SessionManager) -> None:\n manager.add('requests', FetcherSession(impersonate=['chrome', 'firefox', 'safari']))\n manager.add('stealth', AsyncStealthySession(block_webrtc=True), lazy=True)\n\n async def retry_blocked_request(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> Request:\n request.sid = \"stealth\"\n self.logger.info(f\"Retrying blocked request: {request.url}\")\n return request\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nWhat happened above is that I left the blocking detection logic unchanged and had the spider mainly use requests until it got blocked, then switch to the stealthy browser.\n\n\nPutting it all together:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, SessionManager, Request, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession, AsyncStealthySession, ProxyRotator\n\n\ncheap_proxies = ProxyRotator([ \"http://proxy1:8080\", \"http://proxy2:8080\"])\n\n# A format acceptable by the browser\nexpensive_proxies = ProxyRotator([\n {\"server\": \"http://residential_proxy1:8080\", \"username\": \"user\", \"password\": \"pass\"},\n {\"server\": \"http://residential_proxy2:8080\", \"username\": \"user\", \"password\": \"pass\"},\n {\"server\": \"http://mobile_proxy1:8080\", \"username\": \"user\", \"password\": \"pass\"},\n {\"server\": \"http://mobile_proxy2:8080\", \"username\": \"user\", \"password\": \"pass\"},\n])\n\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n max_blocked_retries = 5\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager: SessionManager) -> None:\n manager.add('requests', FetcherSession(impersonate=['chrome', 'firefox', 'safari'], proxy_rotator=cheap_proxies))\n manager.add('stealth', AsyncStealthySession(block_webrtc=True, proxy_rotator=expensive_proxies), lazy=True)\n\n async def retry_blocked_request(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> Request:\n request.sid = \"stealth\"\n self.logger.info(f\"Retrying blocked request: {request.url}\")\n return request\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\nThe above logic is: requests are made with cheap proxies, such as datacenter proxies, until they are blocked, then retried with higher-quality proxies, such as residential or mobile proxies.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":9293,"content_sha256":"12fa63415ba818b729ae23ca54de7b1920b048970f3cf37565d70a51c9d9ada9"},{"filename":"references/spiders/requests-responses.md","content":"# Requests & Responses\n\n## The Request Object\n\nA `Request` represents a URL to be fetched. You create requests either directly or via `response.follow()`:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Request\n\n# Direct construction\nrequest = Request(\n \"https://example.com/page\",\n callback=self.parse_page,\n priority=5,\n)\n\n# Via response.follow (preferred in callbacks)\nrequest = response.follow(\"/page\", callback=self.parse_page)\n```\n\nHere are all the arguments you can pass to `Request`:\n\n| Argument | Type | Default | Description |\n|---------------|------------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `url` | `str` | *required* | The URL to fetch |\n| `sid` | `str` | `\"\"` | Session ID - routes the request to a specific session (see [Sessions](sessions.md)) |\n| `callback` | `callable` | `None` | Async generator method to process the response. Defaults to `parse()` |\n| `priority` | `int` | `0` | Higher values are processed first |\n| `dont_filter` | `bool` | `False` | If `True`, skip deduplication (allow duplicate requests) |\n| `meta` | `dict` | `{}` | Arbitrary metadata passed through to the response |\n| `**kwargs` | | | Additional keyword arguments passed to the session's fetch method (e.g., `headers`, `method`, `data`) |\n\nAny extra keyword arguments are forwarded directly to the underlying session. For example, to make a POST request:\n\n```python\nyield Request(\n \"https://example.com/api\",\n method=\"POST\",\n data={\"key\": \"value\"},\n callback=self.parse_result,\n)\n```\n\n## Response.follow()\n\n`response.follow()` is the recommended way to create follow-up requests inside callbacks. It offers several advantages over constructing `Request` objects directly:\n\n- **Relative URLs** are resolved automatically against the current page URL\n- **Referer header** is set to the current page URL by default\n- **Session kwargs** from the original request are inherited (headers, proxy settings, etc.), except `method`, `params`, `data`, `json`, `files`, and `multipart`, so followed links are plain GETs\n- **Callback, session ID, and priority** are inherited from the original request if not specified\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Minimal - inherits callback, sid, priority from current request\n yield response.follow(\"/next-page\")\n\n # Override specific fields\n yield response.follow(\n \"/product/123\",\n callback=self.parse_product,\n priority=10,\n )\n\n # Pass additional metadata to\n yield response.follow(\n \"/details\",\n callback=self.parse_details,\n meta={\"category\": \"electronics\"},\n )\n```\n\n| Argument | Type | Default | Description |\n|--------------------|------------|------------|------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `url` | `str` | *required* | URL to follow (absolute or relative) |\n| `sid` | `str` | `\"\"` | Session ID (inherits from original request if empty) |\n| `callback` | `callable` | `None` | Callback method (inherits from original request if `None`) |\n| `priority` | `int` | `None` | Priority (inherits from original request if `None`) |\n| `dont_filter` | `bool` | `False` | Skip deduplication |\n| `meta` | `dict` | `None` | Metadata (merged with existing response meta) |\n| **`referer_flow`** | `bool` | `True` | Set current URL as Referer header |\n| `**kwargs` | | | Merged with original request's session kwargs |\n\n### Disabling Referer Flow\n\nBy default, `response.follow()` sets the `Referer` header to the current page URL. To disable this:\n\n```python\nyield response.follow(\"/page\", referer_flow=False)\n```\n\n## Callbacks\n\nCallbacks are async generator methods on your spider that process responses. They must `yield` one of three types:\n\n- **`dict`** - A scraped item, added to the results\n- **`Request`** - A follow-up request, added to the queue\n- **`None`** - Silently ignored\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Yield items (dicts)\n yield {\"url\": response.url, \"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n\n # Yield follow-up requests\n for link in response.css(\"a::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse_page)\n\n async def parse_page(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"content\": response.css(\"article::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\n**Note:**\n\nAll callback methods must be `async def` and use `yield` (not `return`). Even if a callback only yields items with no follow-up requests, it must still be an async generator.\n\n## Request Priority\n\nRequests with higher priority values are processed first. This is useful when some pages are more important to be processed first before others:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n # High priority - process product pages first\n for link in response.css(\"a.product::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse_product, priority=10)\n\n # Low priority - pagination links processed after products\n next_page = response.css(\"a.next::attr(href)\").get()\n if next_page:\n yield response.follow(next_page, callback=self.parse, priority=0)\n```\n\nWhen using `response.follow()`, the priority is inherited from the original request unless you specify a new one.\n\n## Deduplication\n\nThe spider automatically deduplicates requests based on a fingerprint computed from the URL, HTTP method, request body, and session ID. If two requests produce the same fingerprint, the second one is silently dropped.\n\nTo allow duplicate requests (e.g., re-visiting a page after login), set `dont_filter=True`:\n\n```python\nyield Request(\"https://example.com/dashboard\", dont_filter=True, callback=self.parse_dashboard)\n\n# Or with response.follow\nyield response.follow(\"/dashboard\", dont_filter=True, callback=self.parse_dashboard)\n```\n\nYou can fine-tune what goes into the fingerprint using class attributes on your spider:\n\n| Attribute | Default | Effect |\n|----------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `fp_include_kwargs` | `False` | Include extra request kwargs (arguments you passed to the session fetch, like headers, etc.) in the fingerprint |\n| `fp_keep_fragments` | `False` | Keep URL fragments (`#section`) when computing fingerprints |\n| `fp_include_headers` | `False` | Include request headers in the fingerprint |\n\nFor example, if you need to treat `https://example.com/page#section1` and `https://example.com/page#section2` as different URLs:\n\n```python\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n fp_keep_fragments = True\n # ...\n```\n\n## Request Meta\n\nThe `meta` dictionary lets you pass arbitrary data between callbacks. This is useful when you need context from one page to process another:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n for product in response.css(\"div.product\"):\n category = product.css(\"span.category::text\").get(\"\")\n link = product.css(\"a::attr(href)\").get()\n if link:\n yield response.follow(\n link,\n callback=self.parse_product,\n meta={\"category\": category},\n )\n\nasync def parse_product(self, response: Response):\n yield {\n \"name\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"price\": response.css(\".price::text\").get(\"\"),\n # Access meta from the request\n \"category\": response.meta.get(\"category\", \"\"),\n }\n```\n\nWhen using `response.follow()`, the meta from the current response is merged with the new meta you provide (new values take precedence).\n\nThe spider system also automatically stores some metadata. For example, the proxy used for a request is available as `response.meta[\"proxy\"]` when proxy rotation is enabled.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":8988,"content_sha256":"c238afb9ab0f6f513deb68583cff2dfe8197b2e26441f717f0a38d6885404cab"},{"filename":"references/spiders/sessions.md","content":"# Spiders sessions\n\nA spider can use multiple fetcher sessions simultaneously. For example, a fast HTTP session for simple pages and a stealth browser session for protected pages.\n\n## What are Sessions?\n\nA session is a pre-configured fetcher instance that stays alive for the duration of the crawl. Instead of creating a new connection or browser for every request, the spider reuses sessions, which is faster and more resource-efficient.\n\nBy default, every spider creates a single [FetcherSession](../fetching/static.md). You can add more sessions or swap the default by overriding the `configure_sessions()` method, but you have to use the async version of each session only, as the table shows below:\n\n\n| Session Type | Use Case |\n|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|\n| [FetcherSession](../fetching/static.md) | Fast HTTP requests, no JavaScript |\n| [AsyncStealthySession](../fetching/stealthy.md) | JavaScript, browser automation, anti-bot bypass |\n\n\n## Configuring Sessions\n\nOverride `configure_sessions()` on your spider to set up sessions. The `manager` parameter is a `SessionManager` instance. Use `manager.add()` to register sessions:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession\n\nclass MySpider(Spider):\n name = \"my_spider\"\n start_urls = [\"https://example.com\"]\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager):\n manager.add(\"default\", FetcherSession())\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n yield {\"title\": response.css(\"title::text\").get(\"\")}\n```\n\nThe `manager.add()` method takes:\n\n| Argument | Type | Default | Description |\n|--------------|-----------|------------|----------------------------------------------|\n| `session_id` | `str` | *required* | A name to reference this session in requests |\n| `session` | `Session` | *required* | The session instance |\n| `default` | `bool` | `False` | Make this the default session |\n| `lazy` | `bool` | `False` | Start the session only when first used |\n\n**Notes:**\n\n1. In all requests, if you don't specify which session to use, the default session is used. The default session is determined in one of two ways:\n 1. The first session you add to the managed becomes the default automatically.\n 2. The session that gets `default=True` while added to the manager.\n2. The instances you pass of each session don't have to be already started by you; the spider checks on all sessions if they are not already started and starts them.\n3. If you want a specific session to start when used only, then use the `lazy` argument while adding that session to the manager. Example: start the browser only when you need it, not with the spider start.\n\n## Multi-Session Spider\n\nHere's a practical example: use a fast HTTP session for listing pages and a stealth browser for detail pages that have bot protection:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession, AsyncStealthySession\n\nclass ProductSpider(Spider):\n name = \"products\"\n start_urls = [\"https://shop.example.com/products\"]\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager):\n # Fast HTTP for listing pages (default)\n manager.add(\"http\", FetcherSession())\n\n self.browser_session = AsyncStealthySession(\n headless=True,\n network_idle=True,\n record_requests=True,\n )\n manager.add(\"stealth\", self.browser_session)\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a.product::attr(href)\").getall():\n # Route product pages through the stealth session\n yield response.follow(link, sid=\"stealth\", callback=self.parse_product)\n\n next_page = response.css(\"a.next::attr(href)\").get()\n if next_page:\n yield response.follow(next_page)\n\n async def parse_product(self, response: Response):\n yield {\n \"name\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"price\": response.css(\".price::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n\n async def on_close(self):\n for api_response in self.browser_session.network.search(\n url_pattern=r\"https://api\\.shop\\.example\\.com/.*\", limit=None\n ):\n self.logger.info(f\"Saved API response: {api_response.url} ({api_response.status})\")\n```\n\nThe example keeps the browser instance and reads its retained API history once in `on_close()`, before the sessions close. The history covers all product pages and stays readable after closure. Pending captures are not awaited, and retention limits still apply.\n\nThe key is the `sid` parameter - it tells the spider which session to use for each request. When you call `response.follow()` without `sid`, the session ID from the original request is inherited.\n\nNote that the sessions don't have to be from different classes only, but can be the same session, but different instances with different configurations, for example, like below:\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession\n\nclass ProductSpider(Spider):\n name = \"products\"\n start_urls = [\"https://shop.example.com/products\"]\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager):\n chrome_requests = FetcherSession(impersonate=\"chrome\")\n firefox_requests = FetcherSession(impersonate=\"firefox\")\n\n manager.add(\"chrome\", chrome_requests)\n manager.add(\"firefox\", firefox_requests)\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n for link in response.css(\"a.product::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, callback=self.parse_product)\n\n next_page = response.css(\"a.next::attr(href)\").get()\n if next_page:\n yield response.follow(next_page, sid=\"firefox\")\n\n async def parse_product(self, response: Response):\n yield {\n \"name\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"price\": response.css(\".price::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n```\n\nOr you can separate concerns and keep a session with its cookies/state for specific requests, etc...\n\n## Session Arguments\n\nExtra keyword arguments passed to a `Request` (or through `response.follow(**kwargs)`) are forwarded to the session's fetch method. This lets you customize individual requests without changing the session configuration:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Pass extra headers for this specific request\n yield Request(\n \"https://api.example.com/data\",\n headers={\"Authorization\": \"Bearer token123\"},\n callback=self.parse_api,\n )\n\n # Use a different HTTP method\n yield Request(\n \"https://example.com/submit\",\n method=\"POST\",\n data={\"field\": \"value\"},\n sid=\"firefox\",\n callback=self.parse_result,\n )\n```\n\n**Warning:**\n\nNormally, when you use `FetcherSession`, `Fetcher`, or `AsyncFetcher`, you specify the HTTP method to use with the corresponding method like `.get()` and `.post()`. But while using `FetcherSession` in spiders, you can't do this. By default, the request is an _HTTP GET_ request; if you want to use another HTTP method, you have to pass it to the `method` argument, as in the above example. The reason for this is to unify the `Request` interface across all session types.\n\nWith the `\"stealth\"` session (`AsyncStealthySession`) registered in the multi-session example above, you can pass browser-specific arguments like `wait_selector`, `page_action`, or `extra_headers`:\n\n```python\nasync def parse(self, response: Response):\n # Use Cloudflare solver with the `AsyncStealthySession` we configured above\n yield Request(\n \"https://nopecha.com/demo/cloudflare\",\n sid=\"stealth\",\n callback=self.parse_result,\n solve_cloudflare=True,\n block_webrtc=True,\n hide_canvas=True,\n google_search=True,\n )\n\n yield response.follow(\n \"/dynamic-page\",\n sid=\"stealth\",\n callback=self.parse_dynamic,\n wait_selector=\"div.loaded\",\n network_idle=True,\n )\n```\n\n**Warning:**\n\nSession arguments (**kwargs) passed from the original request are inherited by `response.follow()`, except `method`, `params`, `data`, `json`, `files`, and `multipart`, so following a link after a POST issues a plain GET. New kwargs take precedence over inherited ones.\n\n```python\nfrom scrapling.spiders import Spider, Response\nfrom scrapling.fetchers import FetcherSession\n\nclass ProductSpider(Spider):\n name = \"products\"\n start_urls = [\"https://shop.example.com/products\"]\n\n def configure_sessions(self, manager):\n manager.add(\"http\", FetcherSession(impersonate='chrome'))\n\n async def parse(self, response: Response):\n # I don't want the follow request to impersonate a desktop Chrome like the previous request, but a mobile one\n # so I override it like this\n for link in response.css(\"a.product::attr(href)\").getall():\n yield response.follow(link, impersonate=\"chrome131_android\", callback=self.parse_product)\n\n next_page = response.css(\"a.next::attr(href)\").get()\n if next_page:\n yield response.follow(next_page)\n\n async def parse_product(self, response: Response):\n yield {\n \"name\": response.css(\"h1::text\").get(\"\"),\n \"price\": response.css(\".price::text\").get(\"\"),\n }\n```\n**Info:**\n\nNo need to mention that, upon spider closure, the manager automatically checks whether any sessions are still running and closes them before closing the spider.\n","content_type":"text/markdown; charset=utf-8","language":"markdown","size":9750,"content_sha256":"ab92cc48e882f1bdebc76cffe8304ab74e9a003de1908e29d1312fa25800e6a1"}],"content_json":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Scrapling","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Scrapling is an adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Its parser learns from website changes and automatically relocates your elements when pages update. 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