Scrapy / Pipeline not inserting data to MySQL database - mysql

Question

I'm making a pipeline in scrapy to store scraped data in a mysql database. When the spider is run in terminal it works perfectly. Even the pipeline is opened. However the data is not being sent to the database. Any help appreciated! :)
here's the pipeline code:
import sys
import MySQLdb
import hashlib
from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
from scrapy.http import Request
from tutorial.items import TutorialItem
class MySQLTest(object):
def __init__(self):
db = MySQLdb.connect(user='root', passwd='', host='localhost', db='python')
cursor = db.cursor()
def process_item(self, spider, item):
try:
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO info (venue, datez) VALUES (%s, %s)", (item['artist'], item['date']))
self.conn.commit()
except MySQLdb.Error, e:
print "Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
return item
and heres the spider code
import scrapy # Import required libraries.
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector # Allows for path detection in a websites code.
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider # Used to create a simple spider to extract data.
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor # Needed for the extraction of href links in HTML to crawl further pages.
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider # Needed to make the crawl spider.
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import Rule # Allows specified rules to affect what the link
import spotipy
import soundcloud
import mysql.connector
from tutorial.items import TutorialItem
class AllGigsSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = "allGigs" # Name of the Spider. In command promt, when in the correct folder, enter "scrapy crawl Allgigs".
allowed_domains = ["www.allgigs.co.uk"] # Allowed domains is a String NOT a URL.
start_urls = [
"http://www.allgigs.co.uk/whats_on/London/clubbing-1.html",
"http://www.allgigs.co.uk/whats_on/London/festivals-1.html",
"http://www.allgigs.co.uk/whats_on/London/comedy-1.html",
"http://www.allgigs.co.uk/whats_on/London/theatre_and_opera-1.html",
"http://www.allgigs.co.uk/whats_on/London/dance_and_ballet-1.html"
] # Specify the starting points for the web crawler.
rules = [
Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='//div[#class="more"]'), # Search the start URL's for
callback="parse_me",
follow=True),
]
def parse_me(self, response):
for info in response.xpath('//div[#class="entry vevent"]|//div[#class="resultbox"]'):
item = TutorialItem() # Extract items from the items folder.
item ['artist'] = info.xpath('.//span[#class="summary"]//text()').extract() # Extract artist information.
item ['date'] = info.xpath('.//span[#class="dates"]//text()').extract() # Extract date information.
#item ['endDate'] = info.xpath('.//abbr[#class="dtend"]//text()').extract() # Extract end date information.
#item ['startDate'] = info.xpath('.//abbr[#class="dtstart"]//text()').extract() # Extract start date information.
item ['genre'] = info.xpath('.//div[#class="header"]//text()').extract()
yield item # Retreive items in item.
client = soundcloud.Client(client_id='401c04a7271e93baee8633483510e263')
tracks = client.get('/tracks', limit=1, license='cc-by-sa', q= item['artist'])
for track in tracks:
print(tracks)

Answer 1

I believe the problem was in my settings.py file where i had missed a comma... yawn.
ITEM_PIPELINES = {
'tutorial.pipelines.MySQLTest': 300,
}