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13,717 PointsKeyError: 'Spider not found: formSpider.py'
When I try to run formSpider.py from the terminal I get the following error: KeyError: 'Spider not found: formSpider.py'
This is what I am entering into the terminal to run it: scrapy crawl formSpider.py
Here is my code:
'''
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': 'Kenneth',
'lastname': 'Alger',
'jobtitle': 'Teacher'}
return FormRequest.from_response(response, formnumber=0,
formdata=formdata,
callback=self.after_post)
def after_post(self, response):
print('n\n\*******\nForm processed.\n')
print(response)
print('\n*******\n')
'''
2 Answers
rainmaker
14,690 Pointsfrom 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': 'Kenneth',
'lastname': 'Alger',
'jobtitle': 'Teacher'}
return FormRequest.from_response(response, formnumber=0,
formdata=formdata,
callback=self.after_post)
def after_post(self, response):
print('n\n\*******\nForm processed.\n')
print(response)
print('\n*******\n')
try using scrapy crawl horseForm
Brian Haucke
13,717 PointsHaha, yes! That was it. Thank you.
paul nabende
673 Pointspaul nabende
673 Pointsaah yes! We tell scrappy to crawl by the class name as opposed to the filename. Am just wondering if there is an additional way to run this by the filename. 🤔