How to stop scrapy spider after certain number of requests?

Question

I am developing an simple scraper to get 9 gag posts and its images but due to some technical difficulties iam unable to stop the scraper and it keeps on scraping

Answer 1

One can use custom_settings with CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT as shown below.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
from scrapy import Item, Field


class GagItem(Item):
    entry_id = Field()
    url = Field()
    votes = Field()
    comments = Field()
    title = Field()
    img_url = Field()


class FirstSpider(scrapy.Spider):

    name = "first"
    allowed_domains = ["9gag.com"]
    start_urls = ('http://www.9gag.com/', )
    last_gag_id = None

    COUNT_MAX = 30

    custom_settings = {
        'CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT': COUNT_MAX
    }

    def parse(self, response):

        for article in response.xpath('//article'):
            gag_id = article.xpath('@data-entry-id').extract()
            ninegag_item = GagItem()
            ninegag_item['entry_id'] = gag_id[0]
            ninegag_item['url'] = article.xpath('@data-entry-url').extract()[0]
            ninegag_item['votes'] = article.xpath('@data-entry-votes').extract()[0]
            ninegag_item['img_url'] = article.xpath('.//div[1]/a/img/@src').extract()
            self.last_gag_id = gag_id[0]
            yield ninegag_item

            next_url = 'http://9gag.com/?id=%s&c=10' % self.last_gag_id
            yield scrapy.Request(url=next_url, callback=self.parse)