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20,315 PointsForm contents not being output
So I have run this and like another user, this spider doesn't actually output anything at all and I have no idea why. Code should be pretty much identical to that in the video.
from scrapy.http import FormRequest
from scrapy.spiders import Spider
class FormSpider(Spider):
name = "horseform"
start_urls = ["https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/form.html"]
def parse(self, response):
formdata = {"firstname": "Tom", "lastname": "Thomson", "jobtitle": "Chef"}
return FormRequest.from_response(response,
formnumber=0,
formdata=formdata,
callback=self.after_post)
def after_post(self, response):
print("\n \n ============= \n \nForm processed.\n\n")
print(response)
print("\n\n ============= \n \