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Michael Heydt
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Michael Heydt

Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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Supporting page redirects

Page redirects in Scrapy are handled using redirect middleware, which is enabled by default. The process can be further configured using the following parameters:

  • REDIRECT_ENABLED: (True/False - default is True)
  • REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES: (The maximum number of redirections to follow for any single request - default is 20)

How to do it

The script in 06/02_scrapy_redirects.py demonstrates how to configure Scrapy to handle redirects. This configures a maximum of two redirects for any page. Running the script reads the NASA sitemap and crawls that content. This contains a large number of redirects, many of which are redirects from HTTP to HTTPS versions of URLs. There will be a lot of output, but here are...

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Published in: Feb 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787285217

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Michael Heydt

Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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