Scrapy is not crawling any URLs

Question

I placed my code in scrapy shell to test my xpath everything seems ok. However I cannot see why is 0 crawls. Here is the log output:

2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.5.1 started (bot: jumia) 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.3.0.0, libxml2 2.9.9, cssselect 1.0.3, parsel 1.5.1, w3lib 1.20.0, Twisted 18.9.0, Python 2.7.15+ (default, Nov 28 2018, 16:27:22) - [GCC 8.2.0], pyOpenSSL 18.0.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.0j 20 Nov 2018), cryptography 2.4.2, Platform Linux-4.19.0-kali1-amd64-x86_64-with-Kali-kali-rolling-kali-rolling 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'jumia.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['jumia.spiders'], 'ROBOTSTXT_OBEY': True, 'BOT_NAME': 'jumia'} 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions: ['scrapy.extensions.memusage.MemoryUsage', 'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats', 'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole', 'scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats'] 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares: ['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.robotstxt.RobotsTxtMiddleware', 'scrapy.downl oadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats'] 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares: ['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlew ares.depth.DepthMiddleware'] 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines: [] 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min) 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] DEBUG: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6029 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished) 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats: {'finish_reason': 'finished', 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 27, 17, 4, 47, 950397), 'log_count/DEBUG': 1, 'log_count/INFO': 7, 'memusage/max': 53383168, 'memusage/startup': 53383168, 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 27, 17, 4, 47, 947520)} 2019-02-27 18:04:47 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

Here is my spider code:

    import scrapy
    from scrapy.loader import ItemLoader
    from scrapy.loader.processors import MapCompose
    from scrapy.loader.processors import TakeFirst
    from jumia.items import JumiaItem


    class ProductDetails (scrapy.Spider):
        name = "jumiaProject"
        start_url = ["https://www.jumia.com.ng/computing/hp/"]

        def parse (self, response):

            search_results = response.css('section.products.-mabaya > div')

            for product in search_results: 

                product_loader = ItemLoader(item=JumiaItem(), selector=product)

                product_loader.add_css('brand','h2.title > span.brand::text')

                product_loader.add_css('name', 'h2.title > span.name::text')

                product_loader.add_css('link', 'a.link::attr(href)')


                yield product_loader.load_item()

Here is my items.py :

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Define here the models for your scraped items
#
# See documentation in:
# https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html

import scrapy
from scrapy.loader.processors import MapCompose
class JumiatesteItem(scrapy.Item):
    # define the fields for your item here like:
    name  = scrapy.Field()
    brand = scrapy.Field()
    price = scrapy.Field()
    link  = scrapy.Field()

Answer 1

The correct variable name in your Spider should be start_urls , not start_url . Because of the wrong name it doesn't detect any URLs.