Stop using allowed_domains for robots.txt prefetch since bare domain strings have no scheme info.
Domains discovered mid-crawl via requests still fetch robots.txt lazily.
robots_txt_obey now defaults to True. Spiders must explicitly opt out
with robots_txt_obey = False rather than opt in, making ethical
crawling the default behaviour.
File: scrapling/spiders/spider.py
Previously robots.txt was fetched lazily on the first request per
domain, causing early concurrent requests to each stall waiting for
the same network fetch. The cache is now warmed before the crawl loop
starts, making all subsequent robots.txt lookups a local read.
- RobotsTxtManager gains a prefetch(urls, sid) method that fetches all domains concurrently via a task group
- CrawlerEngine._prefetch_robots_txt() is called after on_start():
uses allowed_domains if configured, otherwise falls back to unique
domains extracted from start_urls
- Mid-crawl domain discovery (not covered by prefetch) still fetches
lazily; two concurrent callbacks on the same new domain can each
trigger a fetch — accepted tradeoff, documented in _get_domain_delay
Files: scrapling/spiders/robotstxt.py, scrapling/spiders/engine.py, tests/spiders/test_engine.py
robots.txt is a domain-level document and does not vary by session.
Keying the cache by (domain, sid) was both wasteful and incorrect —
it caused redundant fetches when the same domain was accessed by different sessions.
- Cache is now keyed by domain string only; all sessions share one entry
- Removed asyncio.Event inflight-deduplication mechanism (superseded by the prefetch approach added in the next commit)
- clear_cache() loses the `sid` parameter (breaking change); clearing a domain now evicts the single shared entry for all sessions
- Updated tests to reflect shared-cache semantics
Files: scrapling/spiders/robotstxt.py, tests/spiders/test_robotstxt.py
The stub shadows the real implementation, and proxy rotation always hits NotImplementedError.
Possible fix for #215
Co-Authored-By: Yuval Dinodia <102706514+yetval@users.noreply.github.com>
- `get()` now delegates to `bulk_get([url])[0]` (was a separate sync implementation)
- `fetch()` now delegates to `bulk_fetch([url])[0]` (eliminated duplicate fetcher call)
- `stealthy_fetch()` now delegates to `bulk_stealthy_fetch([url])[0]` (same)
- Replaced 6x repeated `_content_translator(Convertor._extract_content(...), page)` with a single `_translate_response()` helper
- Removed unused imports (`Fetcher`, `DynamicFetcher`, `StealthyFetcher`, `Generator`)
Shortened the code by 210 lines. Also, removed docstrings because they are not needed for CLI commands (more maintenance burden).
- `_common_http_options`: shared decorator for 10 Click options used by get/post/put/delete (was repeated 4x)
- `_common_browser_options`: shared decorator for 11 Click options used by fetch/stealthy_fetch (was repeated 2x)
- `_data_options`: shared decorator for `--data`/`--json` options used by post/put
- `__http_command()`: shared implementation body for all HTTP commands (was 4 separate `from scrapling.fetchers import Fetcher` + `__Request_and_Save` blocks)
- `__build_browser_kwargs()`: shared kwargs builder for fetch/stealthy_fetch (was duplicated)
SessionManager.fetch() pops `method` from `_session_kwargs`,
which mutates the original request dict. When the engine retries
a blocked request via request.copy(), the copy no longer has
`method`, so it defaults to GET.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Yield Request(url, method="POST", data=...)
2. Target returns a response that triggers is_blocked()
3. Engine retries via request.copy() → second fetch uses GET
Fix: copy the kwargs dict before popping, so the original
request stays intact.
Both _get_page_content and _get_async_page_content use a while-True
loop that retries page.content() on PlaywrightError with no upper
bound. If the page is in a permanently broken state (crashed tab,
closed context), this loops forever and hangs the process.
Replace with a bounded for-loop (default 10 retries = 5s), returning
an empty string if all attempts fail. This preserves the existing
retry behavior for the transient Windows issue (playwright#16108)
while preventing hangs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When _checkpoint_system_enabled is False, the method uses a bare
`raise` with no active exception, which causes RuntimeError at
runtime. The method's docstring says it returns False when restoration
is not possible, so return False is the correct behavior.
The caller in crawl() currently guards with `if
self._checkpoint_system_enabled`, but the method's own contract
should be self-consistent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real browsers send `https://www.google.com/` as the Referer header
when clicking search results, not the full search URL with query
parameters. The previous format was a fingerprinting signal that
the referer was spoofed.
Closes#172
Karim shoair