Crawly.Spider behaviour (Crawly v0.12.0) View Source
A behavior module for implementing a Crawly Spider
A Spider is a module which is responsible for defining:
- init/0function, which must return a keyword list with start_urls/start_requests list
- init/1same as init, but also takes a list of options sent from Engine
- base_url/0function responsible for filtering out requests not related to a given website
- parse_item/1function which is responsible for parsing the downloaded request and converting it into items which can be stored and new requests which can be scheduled
- custom_settings/0an optional callback which can be used in order to provide custom spider specific settings. Should define a list with custom settings and their values. These values will take precedence over the global settings defined in the config.
Link to this section Summary
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base_url() :: binary()
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override_settings() :: Crawly.Settings.t()
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parse_item(response :: HTTPoison.Response.t()) :: Crawly.ParsedItem.t()
