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    <p>Scrape instead of spider? </p> <p>Because your original problem requires the repeated navigation of a consecutive and repeated set of content instead of a tree of content of unknown size, use mechanize (http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/) and beautifulsoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/).</p> <p>Here's an example of instantiating a browser using mechanize. Also, using the br.follow_link(text="foo") means that, unlike the xpath in your example, the links will still be followed no matter the structure of the elements in the ancestor path. Meaning, if they update their HTML your script breaks. A looser coupling will save you some maintenance. Here is an example:</p> <pre><code>br = mechanize.Browser() br.set_handle_equiv(True) br.set_handle_redirect(True) br.set_handle_referer(True) br.set_handle_robots(False) br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1)Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1')] br.addheaders = [('Accept-Language','en-US')] br.addheaders = [('Accept-Encoding','gzip, deflate')] cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) br.open("http://amazon.com") br.follow_link(text="Today's Deals") print br.response().read() </code></pre> <p>Also, in the "next 15" href there is probably something indicating pagination e.g. &amp;index=15. If the total number of items on all pages is available on the first page, then:</p> <pre><code>soup = BeautifulSoup(br.response().read()) totalItems = soup.findAll(id="results-count-total")[0].text startVar = [x for x in range(int(totalItems)) if x % 15 == 0] </code></pre> <p>Then just iterate over startVar and create the url, add the value of startVar to the url, br.open() it and scrape the data. That way you don't have to programatically "find" the "next" link on the page and execute a click on it to advance to the next page - you already know all the valid urls. Minimizing code driven manipulation of the page to only the data you need will speed up your extraction.</p>
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