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jsonRequesthandleDemo

This is a Scrapy project to scrape json response from http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/data/realdonaldtrump/2017.json and http://trumptwitterarchivedata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/data/realdonaldtrump/2016.json.

This project is only meant for educational purposes.

Handle Response

Json response

Image of Json

Extracted data

This project extracts tweet details. The extracted data looks like this sample:

        {
        "created_at": "Mon Jan 01 13:37:52 +0000 2018",
        "favorite_count": 54056,
        "id_str": "947824196909961216",
        "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
        "is_retweet": false,
        "retweet_count": 8656,
        "source": "Twitter for iPhone",
        "text": "Will be leaving Florida for Washington (D.C.) today at 4:00 P.M. Much work to be done, but it will be a great New                Year!"
        }

Spiders

This project contains one spider and you can list them using the list command:

$ scrapy list
jsonResponseHandle

Spider extract the data from json.

Running the spiders

You can run a spider using the scrapy crawl command, such as:

$ scrapy crawl jsonResponseHandle

If you want to save the scraped data to a file, you can pass the -o option:

$ scrapy crawl jsonResponseHandle -o output.json