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How to scrape tables using Scrapy
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import scrapy | |
import pandas | |
from ..items import YahooItem | |
class YahooSpider(scrapy.Spider): | |
name = 'Yahoo' | |
symbols = ["ADSK","BA","CAT","EBAY","GS","HSY","IBM","JPM","WMT","SHOP", | |
"T", "F", "TRI", "AMZN", "C", "A", "O", "B","MSFT", "NVDA", | |
"DIS", "AAL", "NFLX", "JNJ","BAC","GOOGL", "WFC"] | |
start_urls = ['https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/{0}/history?p={0}'.format(x) for x in symbols] | |
def parse(self, response): | |
items = YahooItem() | |
data = response.xpath('//table//text()').extract() | |
title = response.xpath('//title//text()').extract() | |
num_cols = 7 | |
output = [data[i:i + num_cols] for i in range(0, len(data), num_cols)] | |
dictionary = pandas.DataFrame(output[1:], columns=output[0]).set_index('Date').to_dict() | |
items['title'] = title | |
items['data'] = dictionary | |
yield items |
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Can you please share the code for YahooItem?