It doesn't look to me like it's writing the HTML to the DOM with j.s., as you noted.
The big concern I have is that you are assuming the HTML content in your browser is the same as in your code. How have you asserted this? On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:02 AM, DataScience <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Travis for you quick feedback. > > I am testing scrapy on this specefic webpage and try to get the job offers > (and not profiles). > I read in some forums that it may be due to the website which is using > Javascript to build most of the page, so the elements I want do not > appear in the HTML source of the page. I've checked by disabling > Javascript and reloading the page, but the result has been displayed on the > page (I've also checked the network in firbug by filtering XHR and looked > into the POST...and nothing). > > Any help would be more than welcome. > Thank you. > > > Le lundi 16 mars 2015 16:26:41 UTC+1, Travis Leleu a écrit : >> >> Linkedin can be a tough site to scrape, as they generally don't want >> their data in other people's hands. You will need to use a user-agent >> switcher (you don't mention what UA you are sending), and most likely >> require a proxy in addition. >> >> If you are looking to scrape the entirety of linkedin, it's > 30 million >> profiles. I've found it more economical to purchase a linkedin data dump >> from scrapinghub.com than to scrape it myself. >> >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:05 AM, DataScience <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Scrapy Guys, >>> >>> Scrapy returns me an empty list while using shell to pick a simple >>> "title" field from this web page: http://goo.gl/dBR8P4 >>> I've used: >>> >>> - sel.xpath(‘//div[@id="results-rail"]/ul[@class="jobs"]/li[1] >>> /div[@class="content"]/span/a[@class="title"]/text()’).extract() >>> - sel.xpath('html/body/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/ul/ >>> li[1]/div/span/a').extract() >>> - ... >>> >>> I verified the issue of the POST with XHR using firebug, and I think >>> there are no relationships with information generated using js code (what >>> do you think?). >>> >>> Can you please help me to figure out with this problem? >>> Thank you in Advance. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> K. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "scrapy-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "scrapy-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
