Trouble renaming downloaded images in a customized manner through pipelines

Question

I\'ve created a script using python\'s scrapy module to download and rename movie images from a torrent site and store them in a folder within scrapy project. When I run my scri

Answer 1

Override get_media_requests() and add the data you need to the request. Then grab that data from the request in file_path().

For example:

class YifySpiderPipeline(ImagesPipeline):

    def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
        # Here we add the whole item, but you can add only a single field too.
        return [Request(x, meta={'item': item) for x in item.get(self.images_urls_field, [])]

    def file_path(self, request, response=None, info=None):
        item = request.meta.get('item')
        movie = item['movie']
        # Construct the filename.
        return image_name