Scrapy shell是一个交互式shell，可以在不运行Spider的情况下，测试和调试自己的数据提取代码。事实上，Scrapy shell可以测试任何类型的代码，因为它本就是一个常规的Python shell。

一、Scrapy shell的使用

1、启动Scrapy shell

scrapy shell 'https://scrapy.org' --nolog

2、使用实例和函数调试

1、使用response实例提取数据

>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').get()
'Scrapy | A Fast and Powerful Scraping and Web Crawling Framework'

2、使用fetch()函数获取响应

>>> fetch("https://old.reddit.com/")

3、使用response实例提取数据

>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').get()
'reddit: the front page of the internet'

4、使用request实例修改请求方式

>>> request = request.replace(method="POST")

5、使用fetch()函数获取响应

>>> fetch(request)

6、使用response实例查看响应状态

>>> response.status
404

7、使用response实例打印响应头信息

>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(response.headers)
{'Accept-Ranges': ['bytes'],
 'Cache-Control': ['max-age=0, must-revalidate'],
 'Content-Type': ['text/html; charset=UTF-8'],
 'Date': ['Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:21:19 GMT'],
 'Server': ['snooserv'],
 'Set-Cookie': ['loid=KqNLou0V9SKMX4qb4n; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure', 'loidcreated=2016-12-08T16%3A21%3A19.445Z; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure', 'loid=vi0ZVe4NkxNWdlH7r7; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure','loidcreated=2016-12-08T16%3A21%3A19.459Z; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure'],
 'Vary': ['accept-encoding'],
 'Via': ['1.1 varnish'],
 'X-Cache': ['MISS'],
 'X-Cache-Hits': ['0'],
 'X-Content-Type-Options': ['nosniff'],
 'X-Frame-Options': ['SAMEORIGIN'],
 'X-Moose': ['majestic'],
 'X-Served-By': ['cache-cdg8730-CDG'],
 'X-Timer': ['S1481214079.394283,VS0,VE159'],
 'X-Ua-Compatible': ['IE=edge'],
 'X-Xss-Protection': ['1; mode=block']}

二、Scrapy shell可用的实例和函数

[s] Available Scrapy objects:
[s]   scrapy     scrapy module (contains scrapy.Request, scrapy.Selector, etc)
[s]   crawler    <scrapy.crawler.Crawler object at 0x7f07395dd690>
[s]   item       {}
[s]   request    <GET https://scrapy.org>
[s]   response   <200 https://scrapy.org/>
[s]   settings   <scrapy.settings.Settings object at 0x7f07395dd710>
[s]   spider     <DefaultSpider 'default' at 0x7f0735891690>
[s] Useful shortcuts:
[s]   fetch(url[, redirect=True]) Fetch URL and update local objects (by default, redirects are followed)
[s]   fetch(req)                  Fetch a scrapy.Request and update local objects
[s]   shelp()           Shell help (print this help)
[s]   view(response)    View response in a browser

三、在Spider中调用shell来检查响应

Spider代码中可以通过scrapy.shell.inspect_response调用shell

import scrapy
class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "myspider"
    start_urls = [
        "http://example.com",
        "http://example.org",
        "http://example.net",
    ]


    def parse(self, response):
        # We want to inspect one specific response.
        if ".org" in response.url:
            from scrapy.shell import inspect_response
            inspect_response(response, self)

        # Rest of parsing code.

在执行Spider代码时，会自动启动Scrapy shell，如

2014-01-23 17:48:31-0400 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET http://example.com> (referer: None)
2014-01-23 17:48:31-0400 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET http://example.org> (referer: None)
[s] Available Scrapy objects:
[s]   crawler    <scrapy.crawler.Crawler object at 0x1e16b50>
...

>>> response.url
'http://example.org'