Scrapy v1.5.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-12-30 // over 6 years ago-
🚀 This release brings small new features and improvements across the codebase.
Some highlights:- 👍 Google Cloud Storage is supported in FilesPipeline and ImagesPipeline.
- Crawling with proxy servers becomes more efficient, as connections to proxies can be reused now.
- ⚠ Warnings, exception and logging messages are improved to make debugging easier.
- 📜 scrapy parse command now allows to set custom request meta via --meta argument.
- ✅ Compatibility with Python 3.6, PyPy and PyPy3 is improved; PyPy and PyPy3 are now supported officially, by running tests on CI.
- 👍 Better default handling of HTTP 308, 522 and 524 status codes.
- 📚 Documentation is improved, as usual.