scrapy spider name definition and/or restrictions

Question

Using scrapy example that has: spider in *.py coded as

class ArticleSpider(spider):
    name="article"

When I run scrapy check -l or scrapy crawl article I get an error:

    class ArticleSpider(spider):
NameError: name 'spider' is not defined

I changed to Spider , scrapy.spider , etc. and receive the same error. I looked at scrapy.org, etc., for definitions and/or restrictions on (spider) but can not find any. So what causes this error?

Answer 1

The error is not about the Spider name but from the class you inherit from. That being said:

You must inherit from Spider :

from scrapy.spiders import Spider

Then:

class ArticleSpider(Spider):
    name="article"

Please take in account that class names are case sensitive .

If you need more information, please refer to:

http://doc.scrapy.org/en/1.0/topics/spiders.html#scrapy.spiders.Spider