Scrapy isnt scraping the next page - web-scraping

Question

I am trying to scrape article news from skynewsarabia.com
class SkyNewsSportsSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'sky_news_sports'
sport = "https://www.skynewsarabia.com/sport/"
custom_settings = {
'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ["article_content", "tags"],
}
allowed_domains = ['www.skynewsarabia.com']
first_token = "1569266773000"
scrape_this_link = "https://api.skynewsarabia.com//rest/v2/latest.json?defaultSectionId=6&nextPageToken={}&pageSize=20&types=ARTICLE"
start_urls = [scrape_this_link.format(first_token)]
urls = []
def parse(self, response):
articles = json.loads(response.text)
# to get the link for each article we need to combine both the id and the urlFriendlySuffix in one link
for article in range(0, len(articles["contentItems"])):
article_id = articles["contentItems"][article]["id"]
article_url = articles["contentItems"][article]["urlFriendlySuffix"]
relative_link = article_id + "-" + article_url
full_link = self.sport + relative_link
self.urls.append(full_link)
for url in self.urls:
yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse_details)
self.urls = []
print("Before Check")
self.first_token = articles["nextPageToken"]
if self.first_token is not None:
next_page = self.scrape_this_link.format(self.first_token)
print("I am inside!")
print(next_page)
yield response.follow(url=next_page, callback=self.parse)
def parse_details(self, response):
pass
The basic idea here is that you first scrape a link which has 20 links. besides that, the first link has also a token for the next link which you need to add to the next URL so you can scrape the next 20 links. However, the problem I am facing is that when you first run the script, it is taking the next token and get all the links of that token and then it stops! so I am just scraping 20 links only! when I print the first_token it's giving me something different than 1569266773000 which is provided by default in the script.

Answer 1

You need to change allowed_domains = ['www.skynewsarabia.com'] to allowed_domains = ['skynewsarabia.com']. Alternatively remove the allowed_domains variable completely.
Since you have specified the hostname www Scrapy filters the requests to api.skynewsarabia.com as offsite and the calls are just being dropped.
Additional tip: Try to use self.logger.info and self.logger.debug instead of the print commands in your code.