How do I merge results from target page to current page in scrapy?

Question

Need example in scrapy on how to get a link from one page, then follow this link, get more info from the linked page, and merge back with some data from first page.

Answer 1

More information on passing the meta data and request objects is specifically described in this part of the documentation:

http://readthedocs.org/docs/scrapy/en/latest/topics/request-response.html#passing-additional-data-to-callback-functions

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