How can i use scrapy shell to with parameters on url

Question

I want to scrap the job website. i want to do some testing in scrapy shell.

Hence if i type this

scrapy shell http://www.seek.com.au

Then if i type

from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor

then it works fine

But if i do this

scrapy shell http://www.seek.com.au/JobSearch?DateRange=31&SearchFrom=quick&Keywords=python&nation=3000

Then if i type

from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor

Then it says invalid bash command from and it exits the scrapy job and come on screen as stopped job

>>> from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
-bash: from: command not found

[5]+  Stopped                 scrapy shell http://www.seek.com.au/JobSearch?DateRange=31
[7]   Done                    Keywords=php

Answer 1

apparently, you need to enclose your url within double quotes:

scrapy shell "http://www.seek.com.au/JobSearch?DateRange=31&SearchFrom=quick&Keywords=python&nation=3000"
>>> from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
>>> lx = SgmlLinkExtractor() 

then everything works smoothly (this above is my actual shell output)

tried it without double quotes, doesn't work (the fetch thread keeps running and first key press exits to bash without changing my visual output, thus giving me the same error you have)