Scrapy Images Downloading

Question

My spider runs without displaying any errors but the images are not stored in the folder here are my scrapy files:

Spider.py:

import scrapy
import re
import os
import urlparse
from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.loader.processors import Join, MapCompose, TakeFirst
from scrapy.pipelines.images import ImagesPipeline
from production.items import ProductionItem, ListResidentialItem

class productionSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "production"
    allowed_domains = ["someurl.com"]
    start_urls = [
        "someurl.com"
]

def parse(self, response):
    for sel in response.xpath('//html/body'):
        item = ProductionItem()
        img_url = sel.xpath('//a[@data-tealium-id="detail_nav_showphotos"]/@href').extract()[0]
        yield scrapy.Request(urlparse.urljoin(response.url, img_url),callback=self.parseBasicListingInfo,  meta={'item': item})

def parseBasicListingInfo(item, response):
    item = response.request.meta['item']
    item = ListResidentialItem()
    try:
        image_urls = map(unicode.strip,response.xpath('//a[@itemprop="contentUrl"]/@data-href').extract())
        item['image_urls'] = [ x for x in image_urls]
    except IndexError:
        item['image_urls'] = ''

    return item

settings.py:

from scrapy.settings.default_settings import ITEM_PIPELINES
from scrapy.pipelines.images import ImagesPipeline

BOT_NAME = 'production'

SPIDER_MODULES = ['production.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'production.spiders'
DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'production.items'

ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
DEPTH_PRIORITY = 1
IMAGE_STORE = '/images'

CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 250

DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 2

ITEM_PIPELINES = {
    'scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images.ImagesPipeline': 300,
}

items.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy

class ProductionItem(scrapy.Item):
    img_url = scrapy.Field()

# ScrapingList Residential & Yield Estate for sale
class ListResidentialItem(scrapy.Item):
    image_urls = scrapy.Field()
    images = scrapy.Field()

    pass

My pipeline file is empty i'm not sure what i am suppose to add to the pipeline.py file.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

My Working end result:

spider.py:

import scrapy
import re
import urlparse
from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.loader.processors import Join, MapCompose, TakeFirst
from scrapy.pipelines.images import ImagesPipeline
from production.items import ProductionItem
from production.items import ImageItem

class productionSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "production"
    allowed_domains = ["url"]
    start_urls = [
        "startingurl.com"
    ]

def parse(self, response):
    for sel in response.xpath('//html/body'):
        item = ProductionItem()
        img_url = sel.xpath('//a[@idd="followclaslink"]/@href').extract()[0]
        yield scrapy.Request(urlparse.urljoin(response.url, img_url),callback=self.parseImages,  meta={'item': item})

def parseImages(self, response):
    for elem in response.xpath("//img"):
        img_url = elem.xpath("@src").extract_first()
        yield ImageItem(image_urls=[img_url])

Settings.py

BOT_NAME = 'production'

SPIDER_MODULES = ['production.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'production.spiders'
DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'production.items'
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
IMAGES_STORE = '/Users/home/images'

DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 2

ITEM_PIPELINES = {'scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline': 1}
# Disable cookies (enabled by default)

items.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy

class ProductionItem(scrapy.Item):
    img_url = scrapy.Field()
# ScrapingList Residential & Yield Estate for sale
class ListResidentialItem(scrapy.Item):
    image_urls = scrapy.Field()
    images = scrapy.Field()

class ImageItem(scrapy.Item):
    image_urls = scrapy.Field()
    images = scrapy.Field()

pipelines.py

import scrapy
from scrapy.pipelines.images import ImagesPipeline
from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem

class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):

    def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
        for image_url in item['image_urls']:
            yield scrapy.Request(image_url)

    def item_completed(self, results, item, info):
        image_paths = [x['path'] for ok, x in results if ok]
        if not image_paths:
            raise DropItem("Item contains no images")
        item['image_paths'] = image_paths
        return item

Answer 2

Since you don't know what to put in the pipelines I assume you can use the default pipeline for images provided by scrapy so in the settings.py file you can just declare it like

ITEM_PIPELINES = {
'scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline':1
}

Also, your images path is wrong the / means that you are going to the absolute root path of your machine, so you either put the absolute path to where you want to save or just do a relative path from where you are running your crawler

IMAGES_STORE = '/home/user/Documents/scrapy_project/images'

or

IMAGES_STORE = 'images'

Now, in the spider you extract the url but you don't save it into the item

item['image_urls'] = sel.xpath('//a[@data-tealium-id="detail_nav_showphotos"]/@href').extract_first()

The field has to literally be image_urls if you're using the default pipeline.

Now, in the items.py file you need to add the following 2 fields (both are required with this literal name)

image_urls=Field()
images=Field()

That should work