Scrapy: Google Crawl doesn't work

Question

When I try to crawl Google for search results, Scrapy just yields the Google home page: http://pastebin.com/FUbvbhN4

Here is my spider:

import scrapy         


        

Answer 1

Yes, looks like that address is redirecting to the home page:

example with scrapy shell http://www.google.com/#q=finance.google.com:+3m+co:

...
[s]   request    
[s]   response   <200 http://www.google.com/>
...

Checking your url it makes sense, it isn't containing parameters, but #q (which isn't a url parameter) and the browser is the one recognizing that and making it a google search, so it is not exactly a url path.

the correct google search url is: http://www.google.com/search?q=YOURQUERY