Scrapy Item Parsing Function

This function is used to extract item title, price, and description from a Scrapy response object.

Technology Stack : Scrapy

Code Type : Scrapy crawler parsing function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def parse_item(item):
    # This function uses Scrapy's built-in methods to parse item details from a response object.
    def extract_title(response):
        return response.css('h1::text').get()

    def extract_price(response):
        return response.css('span.price::text').get()

    def extract_description(response):
        return response.css('div.description::text').get()

    item['title'] = extract_title(response)
    item['price'] = extract_price(response)
    item['description'] = extract_description(response)