suppress Scrapy Item printed in logs after pipeline

Question

I have a scrapy project where the item that ultimately enters my pipeline is relatively large and stores lots of metadata and content. Everything is working properly in my s

Answer 1

I think the cleanest way to do this is to add a filter to the scrapy.core.scraper logger that changes the message in question. This allows you to keep your Item's __repr__ intact and to not have to change scrapy's logging level:

import re

class ItemMessageFilter(logging.Filter):
    def filter(self, record):
        # The message that logs the item actually has raw % operators in it,
        # which Scrapy presumably formats later on
        match = re.search(r'(Scraped from %\(src\)s)\n%\(item\)s', record.msg)
        if match:
            # Make the message everything but the item itself
            record.msg = match.group(1)
        # Don't actually want to filter out this record, so always return 1
        return 1

logging.getLogger('scrapy.core.scraper').addFilter(ItemMessageFilter())