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zwl1619
zwl1619

Reputation: 4232

Scrapy error : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'

I am using scrapy 1.4,the version of twisted is 17.5.0,python is 3.6.3.

html is like this：

<span class="number">   20</span>

when I run the spider,there is an error:

item['number'] = response.xpath('//span[@class="number"]/text()').extract_first().strip()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'

what should I do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1465

Answers (1)

peregrino
peregrino

Reputation: 51

Seems like problem is in the xpath that you wrote or in the document itself. extract_first method returns None if no match found. I've checked your example in online xpath validators and seems like everything is fine

Upvotes: 1

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