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Problem with scrapy/python. Returns empty list.

Hello. I am beginner with scrapy library. I am trying to run the following code:

import scrapy

class QuoteSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'quotes'
    start_url = {
      'http://quotes.toscrape.com/'
    }

def parse(self, response):
   title = response.css('title').extract()
   yield {'titletext': title}

But it returns an empty list.

I entered scrapy crawl quotes in the terminal of PyCharm and here is my output. Why it returns an empty list?

2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.8.0 started (bot: tutorial)
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.4.2.0, libxml2 2.9.5, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 19.10.0, Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec
18 2019, 23:11:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019), cryptography 2.8, Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'BOT_NAME': 'tutorial', 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'tutorial.spiders', 'ROBOTSTXT_OBEY': True, 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['tutorial.sp
iders']}
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 3b59fa649f383e24
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares:
['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.robotstxt.RobotsTxtMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.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']
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares:
['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware']
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines:
[]
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'elapsed_time_seconds': 0.00798,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 11, 16, 40, 29, 869924),
'log_count/INFO': 10,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 11, 16, 40, 29, 861944)}
2020-01-11 18:40:29 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

[edit by admin: formatting]

deleted-user-6743633 | 1 post | Jan. 11, 2020, 6:15 p.m. | permalink

These are the forums for PythonAnywhere, an online Python development environment, so we can't really help with problems you're having running code on your own machine -- but perhaps one of our users might have some ideas? You could also try posting your question on a general development help site like Stack Overflow.

Staff giles | 12095 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 12, 2020, 6:04 p.m. | permalink