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minor fixes to scrapy shell docs

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* better IPython links;
* MDC link instead of w3schools;
* small formatting fixes;
* show quoted URL in example
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Mikhail Korobov 2013-12-30 10:27:39 +06:00
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@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ We highly recommend you install `IPython`_, specially if you're working on
Unix systems (where `IPython`_ excels). See the `IPython installation guide`_
for more info.
.. _IPython: http://ipython.scipy.org/
.. _IPython installation guide: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.9.1/html/install/index.html
.. _IPython: http://ipython.org/
.. _IPython installation guide: http://ipython.org/install.html
Launch the shell
================
@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Where the ``<url>`` is the URL you want to scrape.
Using the shell
===============
The Scrapy shell is just a regular Python console (or `IPython` console if you
The Scrapy shell is just a regular Python console (or `IPython`_ console if you
have it available) which provides some additional shortcut functions for
convenience.
@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ Available Shortcuts
Note, however,that this will create a temporary file in your computer,
which won't be removed automatically.
.. _<base> tag: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_base.asp
.. _<base> tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base
Available Scrapy objects
-------------------------
------------------------
The Scrapy shell automatically creates some convenient objects from the
downloaded page, like the :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object and the
@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ Those objects are:
the current URL
* ``request`` - a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object of the last fetched
page. You can modify this request using :meth:`~scrapy.http.Request.replace` or
fetch a new request (without leaving the shell) using the ``fetch``
page. You can modify this request using :meth:`~scrapy.http.Request.replace`
or fetch a new request (without leaving the shell) using the ``fetch``
shortcut.
* ``response`` - a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object containing the last
@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ shell works.
First, we launch the shell::
scrapy shell http://scrapy.org --nolog
scrapy shell 'http://scrapy.org' --nolog
Then, the shell fetches the URL (using the Scrapy downloader) and prints the
list of available objects and useful shortcuts (you'll notice that these lines
@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ After that, we can star playing with the objects::
>>> fetch(request)
2009-04-03 00:57:39-0300 [default] ERROR: Downloading <http://slashdot.org> from <None>: 405 Method Not Allowed
>>>
>>>
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