Scrapy v1.6.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2019-02-11 // about 5 years ago-
Highlights:
- ๐ Better Windows support
- Python 3.7 compatibility
- ๐ Big documentation improvements, including a switch from .extract_first() + .extract() API to .get() + .getall() API
- Feed exports, FilePipeline and MediaPipeline improvements
- Better extensibility: item_error and request_reached_downloader signals; from_crawler support for feed exporters, feed storages and dupefilters.
- ๐ scrapy.contracts fixes and new features
- ๐ Telnet console security improvements, first released as a backport in Scrapy 1.5.2 (2019-01-22)
- ๐ Clean-up of the deprecated code
- ๐ Various bug fixes, small new features and usability improvements across the codebase.