How to get the pipeline object in Scrapy spider

Question

I have use the mongodb to store the data of the crawl.

Now I want to query the last date of the data, that I can continue crawl the data and not ne

Answer 1

A Scrapy Pipeline has an open_spider method that gets executed after the spider is initialized. You can pass a reference to the database connection, the get_date() method, or the Pipeline itself, to your spider. An example of the latter with your code is:

# This is my Pipline
class MongoDBPipeline(object):
    def __init__(self, mongodb_db=None, mongodb_collection=None):
        self.connection = pymongo.Connection(settings['MONGODB_SERVER'], settings['MONGODB_PORT'])
        ....

    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        ....
    def get_date(self):
        ....

    def open_spider(self, spider):
        spider.myPipeline = self

Then, in the spider:

class Spider(Spider):
    name = "test"

    def __init__(self):
        self.myPipeline = None

    def parse(self, response):
        self.myPipeline.get_date()

I don't think the __init__() method is necessary here, but I put it here to show that open_spider replaces it after initialization.