scrapy how to set referer url

Question

I need to set the referer url, before scraping a site, the site uses refering url based Authentication, so it does not allow me to login if the referer is not valid.

Answer 1

Just set Referer url in the Request headers

class scrapy.http.Request(url[, method='GET', body, headers, ...

headers (dict) – the headers of this request. The dict values can be strings (for single valued headers) or lists (for multi-valued headers).

Example:

return Request(url=your_url, headers={'Referer':'http://your_referer_url'})