Merge pull request #229 from christilden/master

fixes spelling errors in documentation

docs/topics/api.rst

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ how you :ref:`configure the downloader middlewares
 
     .. method:: start()
 
-        Start the crawler. This calss :meth:`configure` if it hasn't been called yet.
+        Start the crawler. This calls :meth:`configure` if it hasn't been called yet.
 
 Settings API
 ============

docs/topics/commands.rst

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ And you can see all available commands with::
 There are two kinds of commands, those that only work from inside a Scrapy
 project (Project-specific commands) and those that also work without an active
 Scrapy project (Global commands), though they may behave slightly different
-when running from inside a project (as they would use the project overriden
+when running from inside a project (as they would use the project overridden
 settings).
 
 Global commands:

docs/topics/debug.rst

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Scrapy Shell
 
 While the :command:`parse` command is very useful for checking behaviour of a
 spider, it is of little help to check what happens inside a callback, besides
-showing the reponse received and the output. How to debug the situation when
+showing the response received and the output. How to debug the situation when
 ``parse_details`` sometimes receives no item?
 
 Fortunately, the :command:`shell` is your bread and butter in this case (see

docs/topics/djangoitem.rst

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Using DjangoItem
 ================
 
 :class:`DjangoItem` works much like ModelForms in Django, you create a subclass
-and define its ``django_model`` atribute to ve a valid Django model. With this
+and define its ``django_model`` attribute to be a valid Django model. With this
 you will get an item with a field for each Django model field.
 
 In addition, you can define fields that aren't present in the model and even
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ And we can override the fields of the model with your own::
        django_model = Person
        name = Field(default='No Name')
 
-This is usefull to provide properties to the field, like a default or any other
+This is useful to provide properties to the field, like a default or any other
 property that your project uses.
 
 DjangoItem caveats

docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ single Python class that defines one or more of the following methods:
       :param request: the request that originated the response
       :type request: is a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object
 
-      :param reponse: the response being processed
+      :param response: the response being processed
       :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object
 
       :param spider: the spider for which this response is intended
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ HttpProxyMiddleware
    ``proxy`` meta value to :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` objects.
 
    Like the Python standard library modules `urllib`_ and `urllib2`_, it obeys
-   the following enviroment variables:
+   the following environment variables:
 
    * ``http_proxy``
    * ``https_proxy``

docs/topics/email.rst

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ uses `Twisted non-blocking IO`_, like the rest of the framework.
       performed.
     :type smtphost: str
 
-    :param smtppass: the SMTP pass for authetnication.
+    :param smtppass: the SMTP pass for authentication.
     :type smtppass: str
 
     :param smtpport: the SMTP port to connect to

docs/topics/exporters.rst

@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ XmlItemExporter
         </item>
        </items>
 
-   Unless overriden in the :meth:`serialize_field` method, multi-valued fields are
+   Unless overridden in the :meth:`serialize_field` method, multi-valued fields are
    exported by serializing each value inside a ``<value>`` element. This is for
    convenience, as multi-valued fields are very common.
 

docs/topics/feed-exports.rst

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ being created. These parameters are:
  * ``%(time)s`` - gets replaced by a timestamp when the feed is being created
  * ``%(name)s`` - gets replaced by the spider name
 
-Any other named parmeter gets replaced by the spider attribute of the same
+Any other named parameter gets replaced by the spider attribute of the same
 name. For example, ``%(site_id)s`` would get replaced by the ``spider.site_id``
 attribute the moment the feed is being created.
 

docs/topics/images.rst

@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Here are the methods that you should override in your custom Images Pipeline:
    .. method:: item_completed(results, items, info)
 
       The :meth:`ImagesPipeline.item_completed` method called when all image
-      requests for a single item have completed (either finshed downloading, or
+      requests for a single item have completed (either finished downloading, or
       failed for some reason).
 
       The :meth:`~item_completed` method must return the

docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Item pipeline example
 Price validation and dropping items with no prices
 --------------------------------------------------
 
-Let's take a look at the following hypothetic pipeline that adjusts the ``price``
+Let's take a look at the following hypothetical pipeline that adjusts the ``price``
 attribute for those items that do not include VAT (``price_excludes_vat``
 attribute), and drops those items which don't contain a price::
 

docs/topics/items.rst

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ certain field keys to configure that behaviour. You must refer to their
 documentation to see which metadata keys are used by each component.
 
 It's important to note that the :class:`Field` objects used to declare the item
-do not stay assigned as class attributes. Instead, they can be accesed through
+do not stay assigned as class attributes. Instead, they can be accessed through
 the :attr:`Item.fields` attribute. 
 
 And that's all you need to know about declaring items. 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Setting field values
         ...
     KeyError: 'Product does not support field: lala'
 
-Accesing all populated values
+Accessing all populated values
 -----------------------------
 
 To access all populated values, just use the typical `dict API`_::

docs/topics/jobs.rst

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ loading that attribute from the job directory, when the spider starts and
 stops.
 
 Here's an example of a callback that uses the spider state (other spider code
-is ommited for brevity)::
+is omitted for brevity)::
 
     def parse_item(self, response):
         # parse item here

docs/topics/link-extractors.rst

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ SgmlLinkExtractor
         Defaults to ``('a', 'area')``.
     :type tags: str or list
 
-    :param attrs: list of attrbitues which should be considered when looking
+    :param attrs: list of attributes which should be considered when looking
         for links to extract (only for those tags specified in the ``tags``
         parameter). Defaults to ``('href',)``
     :type attrs: boolean

docs/topics/loaders.rst

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ In other words, data is being collected by extracting it from two XPath
 locations, using the :meth:`~XPathItemLoader.add_xpath` method. This is the
 data that will be assigned to the ``name`` field later.
 
-Afterwards, similar calls are used for ``price`` and ``stock`` fields, and
+Afterwords, similar calls are used for ``price`` and ``stock`` fields, and
 finally the ``last_update`` field is populated directly with a literal value
 (``today``) using a different method: :meth:`~ItemLoader.add_value`.
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
     :attr:`default_item_class`.
 
     The item and the remaining keyword arguments are assigned to the Loader
-    context (accesible through the :attr:`context` attribute).
+    context (accessible through the :attr:`context` attribute).
 
     .. method:: get_value(value, \*processors, \**kwargs)
 
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
         The value is first passed through :meth:`get_value` by giving the
         ``processors`` and ``kwargs``, and then passed through the
         :ref:`field input processor <topics-loaders-processors>` and its result
-        appened to the data collected for that field. If the field already
+        appended to the data collected for that field. If the field already
         contains collected data, the new data is added.
 
         The given ``field_name`` can be ``None``, in which case values for

docs/topics/logging.rst

@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ scrapy.log module
         will be sent to standard error.
     :type logfile: str
 
-    :param loglevel: the minimum logging level to log. Availables values are:
+    :param loglevel: the minimum logging level to log. Available values are:
         :data:`CRITICAL`, :data:`ERROR`, :data:`WARNING`, :data:`INFO` and
         :data:`DEBUG`.
 
     :param logstdout: if ``True``, all standard output (and error) of your
         application will be logged instead. For example if you "print 'hello'"
-        it will appear in the Scrapy log. If ommited, the :setting:`LOG_STDOUT`
+        it will appear in the Scrapy log. If omitted, the :setting:`LOG_STDOUT`
         setting will be used.
     :type logstdout: boolean
 

docs/topics/request-response.rst

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Request objects
         recognized by Scrapy.
 
         This dict is `shallow copied`_ when the request is cloned using the
-        ``copy()`` or ``replace()`` methods, and can also be accesed, in your
+        ``copy()`` or ``replace()`` methods, and can also be accessed, in your
         spider, from the ``response.meta`` attribute.
 
     .. _shallow copied: http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ fields with form data from :class:`Response` objects.
        sometimes it can cause problems which could be hard to debug. For
        example, when working with forms that are filled and/or submitted using
        javascript, the default :meth:`from_response` behaviour may not be the
-       most appropiate. To disable this behaviour you can set the
+       most appropriate. To disable this behaviour you can set the
        ``dont_click`` argument to ``True``. Also, if you want to change the
        control clicked (instead of disabling it) you can also use the
        ``clickdata`` argument.
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ fields with form data from :class:`Response` objects.
           overridden by the one passed in this parameter.
        :type formdata: dict
 
-       :param dont_click: If True, the form data will be sumbitted without
+       :param dont_click: If True, the form data will be submitted without
          clicking in any element.
        :type dont_click: boolean
 

docs/topics/scrapyd.rst

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Or, if you want to start Scrapyd from inside a Scrapy project you can use the
 Installing Scrapyd
 ==================
 
-How to deploy Scrapyd on your servers depends on the platform your're using.
+How to deploy Scrapyd on your servers depends on the platform you're using.
 Scrapy comes with Ubuntu packages for Scrapyd ready for deploying it as a
 system service, to ease the installation and administration, but you can create
 packages for other distribution or operating systems (including Windows). If
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Now, if you type ``scrapy deploy -l`` you'll see::
 See available projects
 ----------------------
 
-To see all available projets in a specific target use::
+To see all available projects in a specific target use::
 
     scrapy deploy -L scrapyd
 
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ Example request::
 
     $ curl http://localhost:6800/addversion.json -F project=myproject -F version=r23 -F egg=@myproject.egg
 
-Example reponse::
+Example response::
 
     {"status": "ok", "spiders": 3}
 

docs/topics/settings.rst

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ extensions and middlewares::
             if settings['LOG_ENABLED']:
                 print "log is enabled!"
 
-In other words, settings can be accesed like a dict, but it's usually preferred
+In other words, settings can be accessed like a dict, but it's usually preferred
 to extract the setting in the format you need it to avoid type errors. In order
 to do that you'll have to use one of the methods provided the
 :class:`~scrapy.settings.Settings` API.
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES
 
 Default: ``20``
 
-Defines the maximun times a request can be redirected. After this maximun the
+Defines the maximum times a request can be redirected. After this maximum the
 request's response is returned as is. We used Firefox default value for the
 same task.
 

docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ single Python class that defines one or more of the following methods:
         direction for :meth:`process_spider_output` to process it, or
         :meth:`process_spider_exception` if it raised an exception.
 
-        :param reponse: the response being processed
+        :param response: the response being processed
         :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object
 
         :param spider: the spider for which this response is intended
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ OffsiteMiddleware
    these messages for each new domain filtered. So, for example, if another
    request for ``www.othersite.com`` is filtered, no log message will be
    printed. But if a request for ``someothersite.com`` is filtered, a message
-   will be printed (but only for the first request filtred).
+   will be printed (but only for the first request filtered).
 
    If the spider doesn't define an
    :attr:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider.allowed_domains` attribute, or the

docs/topics/spiders.rst

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ For spiders, the scraping cycle goes through something like this:
    response handled by the specified callback.
 
 3. In callback functions, you parse the page contents, typically using
-   :ref:`topics-selectors` (but you can also use BeautifuSoup, lxml or whatever
+   :ref:`topics-selectors` (but you can also use BeautifulSoup, lxml or whatever
    mechanism you prefer) and generate items with the parsed data.
 
 4. Finally, the items returned from the spider will be typically persisted to a
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ BaseSpider
        :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` objects.
 
        :param response: the response to parse
-       :type reponse: :class:~scrapy.http.Response`
+       :type response: :class:~scrapy.http.Response`
 
    .. method:: log(message, [level, component])
 
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ These spiders are pretty easy to use, let's have a look at one example::
         name = 'example.com'
         allowed_domains = ['example.com']
         start_urls = ['http://www.example.com/feed.xml']
-        iterator = 'iternodes' # This is actually unnecesary, since it's the default value
+        iterator = 'iternodes' # This is actually unnecessary, since it's the default value
         itertag = 'item'
 
         def parse_node(self, response, node):

docs/topics/stats.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Stats Collection
 
 Scrapy provides a convenient facility for collecting stats in the form of
 key/values, where values are often counters. The facility is called the Stats
-Collector, and can be accesed through the :attr:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler.stats`
+Collector, and can be accessed through the :attr:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler.stats`
 attribute of the :ref:`topics-api-crawler`, as illustrated by the examples in
 the :ref:`topics-stats-usecases` section below.
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ DummyStatsCollector
 
 .. class:: DummyStatsCollector
 
-    A Stats collector which does nothing but is very efficient (beacuse it does
+    A Stats collector which does nothing but is very efficient (because it does
     nothing). This stats collector can be set via the :setting:`STATS_CLASS`
     setting, to disable stats collect in order to improve performance. However,
     the performance penalty of stats collection is usually marginal compared to

docs/topics/telnetconsole.rst

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ TELNETCONSOLE_PORT
 
 Default: ``[6023, 6073]``
 
-The port range to use for the etlnet console. If set to ``None`` or ``0``, a
+The port range to use for the telnet console. If set to ``None`` or ``0``, a
 dynamically assigned port is used.
 
 

docs/topics/webservice.rst

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The web service contains several resources, defined in the
 functionality. See :ref:`topics-webservice-resources-ref` for a list of
 resources available by default.
 
-Althought you can implement your own resources using any protocol, there are
+Although you can implement your own resources using any protocol, there are
 two kinds of resources bundled with Scrapy:
 
 * Simple JSON resources - which are read-only and just output JSON data
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ To write a web service resource you should subclass the :class:`JsonResource` or
     .. attribute:: ws_name
 
         The name by which the Scrapy web service will known this resource, and
-        also the path wehere this resource will listen. For example, assuming
+        also the path where this resource will listen. For example, assuming
         Scrapy web service is listening on http://localhost:6080/ and the
         ``ws_name`` is ``'resource1'`` the URL for that resource will be: