scrapy empty csv file

Question

I'm trying to run my scrapy spider, it returns no error but output his an empty csv file

i'm launching the spider through command line scrapy crawl AnimeReviews -o AnimeReviews.csv -t csv

this is library that i used

import scrapy
import json
from functools import reduce
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from AnimeReviews.items import AnimereviewsItem
last_page = 1789

this is my spider

class AnimeReviewsSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'AnimeReviews_spider'
    allowed_urls =['myanimelist.net']
    start_urls = ['https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?t=anime']

def parse(self, response):
    page_urls = [response.url + "&p=" + str(pageNumber) for pageNumber in range(1, last_page+1)]
    for page_url in page_urls:
        yield scrapy.Request(page_url,
            callback = self.parse_reviews_page)

def parse_reviews_page(self, response):
    item = AnimereviewsItem()
    reviews = response.xpath('//*[@class="borderDark pt4 pb8 pl4 pr4 mb8"]').extract()       #each page displays 50 reviews

    for review in reviews:
        anime_title = Selector(text = review).xpath('//div[1]/a[1]/strong/text()').extract()
        anime_url = Selector(text = review).xpath('//a[@class="hoverinfo_trigger"]/@href').extract()
        anime_url = map(lambda x: 'https://myanimelist.net'+ x ,anime_url)
        review_time = Selector(text = review).xpath('//*[@style="float: right;"]/text()').extract()[0]
        reviewer_name = Selector(text = review).xpath('//div[2]/table/tr/td[2]/a/text()').extract()
        rating = Selector(text = review).xpath('//div[2]/table/tr/td[3]/div[2]/text()').extract()
        for i in range(len(rating)):
            rating_temp = rating[i]
            rating[i] = rating_temp.split(" ")[1]
        review_text = Selector(text = review).xpath('//*[@class="spaceit textReadability word-break"]').extract()
        for i in range(len(review_text)):
            text = Selector(text = review_text[i]).xpath('//text()').extract()
        pic_url = Selector(text = review).xpath('//div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/a/img/@data-src').extract()
        item['anime_title'] = anime_title
        item['anime_url'] = anime_url
        item['review_time'] = review_time
        item['reviewer'] = reviewer_name
        item['rating'] = rating
        item['review_text'] = review_text
        item['pic_url'] = pic_url
        yield item

this is log after crawling

2018-06-22 13:37:14 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2018-06-22 13:37:14 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 698849,
 'downloader/request_count': 1791,
 'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 1791,
 'downloader/response_bytes': 148209070,
 'downloader/response_count': 1791,
 'downloader/response_status_count/200': 1791,
 'finish_reason': 'finished',
 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2018, 6, 22, 11, 37, 14, 546133),
 'log_count/DEBUG': 1792,
 'log_count/INFO': 13,
 'request_depth_max': 1,
 'response_received_count': 1791,
 'scheduler/dequeued': 1790,
 'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 1790,
 'scheduler/enqueued': 1790,
 'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 1790,
 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2018, 6, 22, 11, 30, 38, 403920)}
2018-06-22 13:37:14 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

if you need more informations let me know.

Answer 1

The biggest problem here are you xpath expressions.
They look like they were automatically generated, and they are too specific.

For example, not even your xpath for reviews matches anything.
Something as simple as //div[@class="borderDark"] matches all 50 reviews on a page, as does the css expression .borderDark .

I would recommend getting familiar with xpath and/or css selectors, and writing your selectors by hand.

Also, you're converting selectors to text (using .extract ), and then back to selectors (using Selector ). There's no need to do that, you can simply work with the selectors returned by .xpath .