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vath/scraper/settings.py
eulaly beb5cf461b t1.1: scrape one forum via ViewComments.cfm POST pagination
Spider fetches ViewComments.cfm?GdocForumID=N with vPerPage=500,
generates all page requests from page-1 metadata, and parses
each div.Cbox for comment_id, author, date, title, text, reg_title,
reg_desc. Handles span-wrapped comment text. Fixes UTF-8/windows-1251
meta-tag encoding mismatch. 9083 items, 15 empty-text (0.17%).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-05 12:28:07 -04:00

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# Scrapy settings for scraper project
#
# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or
# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:
#
# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html
# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html
# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
BOT_NAME = "scraper"
SPIDER_MODULES = ["scraper.spiders"]
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = "scraper.spiders"
ADDONS = {}
USER_AGENT = "vath-research-scraper/1.0 (public comment analysis; contact: research)"
# Obey robots.txt rules
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
# Concurrency and throttling settings
#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 16
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 1
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 1
# Disable cookies (enabled by default)
#COOKIES_ENABLED = False
# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)
#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False
# Override the default request headers:
#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {
# "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
# "Accept-Language": "en",
#}
# Enable or disable spider middlewares
# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
# "scraper.middlewares.ScraperSpiderMiddleware": 543,
#}
# Enable or disable downloader middlewares
# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html
#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
# "scraper.middlewares.ScraperDownloaderMiddleware": 543,
#}
# Enable or disable extensions
# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html
#EXTENSIONS = {
# "scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole": None,
#}
# Configure item pipelines
# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html
#ITEM_PIPELINES = {
# "scraper.pipelines.ScraperPipeline": 300,
#}
# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)
# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html
#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True
# The initial download delay
#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5
# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies
#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60
# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to
# each remote server
#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0
# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:
#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False
# HTTP cache — enabled during development to avoid re-hitting the server on test runs.
# Disable (or delete httpcache/) before a production run.
HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True
HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 86400 # 24 h
HTTPCACHE_DIR = "httpcache"
# Output
FEEDS = {
"output/%(name)s_%(time)s.jsonl": {
"format": "jsonlines",
"encoding": "utf-8",
"overwrite": False,
}
}
# The site declares windows-1251 in a meta tag but sends valid UTF-8 bytes.
# Force UTF-8 to prevent lxml from re-decoding via the meta charset.
DEFAULT_RESPONSE_ENCODING = "utf-8"
# Set settings whose default value is deprecated to a future-proof value
FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING = "utf-8"