How to update DjangoItem in Scrapy

Question

I\'ve been working with Scrapy but run into a bit of a problem.

DjangoItem has a save method to persist items using the Django ORM. This is

Answer 1

I think it could be done more simply with

class DjangoSavePipeline(object):
    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        try:
            product = Product.objects.get(myunique_id=item['myunique_id'])
            # Already exists, just update it
            instance = item.save(commit=False)
            instance.pk = product.pk
        except Product.DoesNotExist:
            pass
        item.save()
        return item

Assuming your django model has some unique id from the scraped data, such as a product id, and here assuming your Django model is called Product.