[FIXED] Why my scrapy response body is empty?

Issue

I'm learning scrapy recently. And I tried use its simplist way to fetch a response body, but I got an empty string.

Here is my code:

>>> from scrapy.http import Response
>>> r = Response('http://zenofpython.blog.163.com/blog/static/23531705420146124552782')
>>> r.body
''
>>> r.headers
{}
>>> r.status
200

And with no difficulty, I can visit the url I used above for scrapy Response through browser.It has rich content.

What mistake I've made here?

Solution

You're supposed to fetch a Request and get a Response object in return.

Try doing:

r = Request(url='http://zenofpython.blog.163.com/blog/static/23531705420146124552782')
fetch(r)

on scrapy shell and you'll be able to get the result as a Response object.

print response.body

Answered By - marven