Scrapy Unit Testing

Question

I\'d like to implement some unit tests in a Scrapy (screen scraper/web crawler). Since a project is run through the \"scrapy crawl\" command I can run it through something

Answer 1

Similar to Hadrien's answer but for pytest: pytest-vcr.

import requests
import pytest
from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse

@pytest.mark.vcr()
def test_parse(url, target):
    response = requests.get(url)
    scrapy_response = HtmlResponse(url, body=response.content)
    assert Spider().parse(scrapy_response) == target