Scrapy v1.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-02-11 // about 5 years ago
  • Highlights:

    • ๐Ÿ‘ Better Windows support
    • Python 3.7 compatibility
    • ๐Ÿ“š 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.
    • ๐Ÿ›  scrapy.contracts fixes and new features
    • ๐Ÿš€ Telnet console security improvements, first released as a backport in Scrapy 1.5.2 (2019-01-22)
    • ๐Ÿ—„ Clean-up of the deprecated code
    • ๐Ÿ›  Various bug fixes, small new features and usability improvements across the codebase.

    โœ… Full changelog is in the docs.