Source code for scrapy.http.request

"""
This module implements the Request class which is used to represent HTTP
requests in Scrapy.

See documentation in docs/topics/request-response.rst
"""
import inspect
from typing import Callable, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, TypeVar, Union

from w3lib.url import safe_url_string

import scrapy
from scrapy.http.common import obsolete_setter
from scrapy.http.headers import Headers
from scrapy.utils.curl import curl_to_request_kwargs
from scrapy.utils.python import to_bytes
from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
from scrapy.utils.url import escape_ajax

RequestTypeVar = TypeVar("RequestTypeVar", bound="Request")


[docs]def NO_CALLBACK(*args, **kwargs): """When assigned to the ``callback`` parameter of :class:`~scrapy.http.Request`, it indicates that the request is not meant to have a spider callback at all. For example: .. code-block:: python Request("https://example.com", callback=NO_CALLBACK) This value should be used by :ref:`components <topics-components>` that create and handle their own requests, e.g. through :meth:`scrapy.core.engine.ExecutionEngine.download`, so that downloader middlewares handling such requests can treat them differently from requests intended for the :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.parse` callback. """ raise RuntimeError( "The NO_CALLBACK callback has been called. This is a special callback " "value intended for requests whose callback is never meant to be " "called." )
[docs]class Request(object_ref): """Represents an HTTP request, which is usually generated in a Spider and executed by the Downloader, thus generating a :class:`Response`. """ attributes: Tuple[str, ...] = ( "url", "callback", "method", "headers", "body", "cookies", "meta", "encoding", "priority", "dont_filter", "errback", "flags", "cb_kwargs", ) """A tuple of :class:`str` objects containing the name of all public attributes of the class that are also keyword parameters of the ``__init__`` method. Currently used by :meth:`Request.replace`, :meth:`Request.to_dict` and :func:`~scrapy.utils.request.request_from_dict`. """ def __init__( self, url: str, callback: Optional[Callable] = None, method: str = "GET", headers: Optional[dict] = None, body: Optional[Union[bytes, str]] = None, cookies: Optional[Union[dict, List[dict]]] = None, meta: Optional[dict] = None, encoding: str = "utf-8", priority: int = 0, dont_filter: bool = False, errback: Optional[Callable] = None, flags: Optional[List[str]] = None, cb_kwargs: Optional[dict] = None, ) -> None: self._encoding = encoding # this one has to be set first self.method = str(method).upper() self._set_url(url) self._set_body(body) if not isinstance(priority, int): raise TypeError(f"Request priority not an integer: {priority!r}") self.priority = priority if not (callable(callback) or callback is None): raise TypeError( f"callback must be a callable, got {type(callback).__name__}" ) if not (callable(errback) or errback is None): raise TypeError(f"errback must be a callable, got {type(errback).__name__}") self.callback = callback self.errback = errback self.cookies = cookies or {} self.headers = Headers(headers or {}, encoding=encoding) self.dont_filter = dont_filter self._meta = dict(meta) if meta else None self._cb_kwargs = dict(cb_kwargs) if cb_kwargs else None self.flags = [] if flags is None else list(flags) @property def cb_kwargs(self) -> dict: if self._cb_kwargs is None: self._cb_kwargs = {} return self._cb_kwargs @property def meta(self) -> dict: if self._meta is None: self._meta = {} return self._meta def _get_url(self) -> str: return self._url def _set_url(self, url: str) -> None: if not isinstance(url, str): raise TypeError(f"Request url must be str, got {type(url).__name__}") s = safe_url_string(url, self.encoding) self._url = escape_ajax(s) if ( "://" not in self._url and not self._url.startswith("about:") and not self._url.startswith("data:") ): raise ValueError(f"Missing scheme in request url: {self._url}") url = property(_get_url, obsolete_setter(_set_url, "url")) def _get_body(self) -> bytes: return self._body def _set_body(self, body: Optional[Union[str, bytes]]) -> None: self._body = b"" if body is None else to_bytes(body, self.encoding) body = property(_get_body, obsolete_setter(_set_body, "body")) @property def encoding(self) -> str: return self._encoding def __repr__(self) -> str: return f"<{self.method} {self.url}>"
[docs] def copy(self) -> "Request": return self.replace()
[docs] def replace(self, *args, **kwargs) -> "Request": """Create a new Request with the same attributes except for those given new values""" for x in self.attributes: kwargs.setdefault(x, getattr(self, x)) cls = kwargs.pop("cls", self.__class__) return cls(*args, **kwargs)
[docs] @classmethod def from_curl( cls: Type[RequestTypeVar], curl_command: str, ignore_unknown_options: bool = True, **kwargs, ) -> RequestTypeVar: """Create a Request object from a string containing a `cURL <https://curl.haxx.se/>`_ command. It populates the HTTP method, the URL, the headers, the cookies and the body. It accepts the same arguments as the :class:`Request` class, taking preference and overriding the values of the same arguments contained in the cURL command. Unrecognized options are ignored by default. To raise an error when finding unknown options call this method by passing ``ignore_unknown_options=False``. .. caution:: Using :meth:`from_curl` from :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` subclasses, such as :class:`~scrapy.http.JSONRequest`, or :class:`~scrapy.http.XmlRpcRequest`, as well as having :ref:`downloader middlewares <topics-downloader-middleware>` and :ref:`spider middlewares <topics-spider-middleware>` enabled, such as :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware`, :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware`, or :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware`, may modify the :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object. To translate a cURL command into a Scrapy request, you may use `curl2scrapy <https://michael-shub.github.io/curl2scrapy/>`_. """ request_kwargs = curl_to_request_kwargs(curl_command, ignore_unknown_options) request_kwargs.update(kwargs) return cls(**request_kwargs)
[docs] def to_dict(self, *, spider: Optional["scrapy.Spider"] = None) -> dict: """Return a dictionary containing the Request's data. Use :func:`~scrapy.utils.request.request_from_dict` to convert back into a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object. If a spider is given, this method will try to find out the name of the spider methods used as callback and errback and include them in the output dict, raising an exception if they cannot be found. """ d = { "url": self.url, # urls are safe (safe_string_url) "callback": _find_method(spider, self.callback) if callable(self.callback) else self.callback, "errback": _find_method(spider, self.errback) if callable(self.errback) else self.errback, "headers": dict(self.headers), } for attr in self.attributes: d.setdefault(attr, getattr(self, attr)) if type(self) is not Request: # pylint: disable=unidiomatic-typecheck d["_class"] = self.__module__ + "." + self.__class__.__name__ return d
def _find_method(obj, func): """Helper function for Request.to_dict""" # Only instance methods contain ``__func__`` if obj and hasattr(func, "__func__"): members = inspect.getmembers(obj, predicate=inspect.ismethod) for name, obj_func in members: # We need to use __func__ to access the original function object because instance # method objects are generated each time attribute is retrieved from instance. # # Reference: The standard type hierarchy # https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html if obj_func.__func__ is func.__func__: return name raise ValueError(f"Function {func} is not an instance method in: {obj}")