Python之scrapy linkextractors使用错误

1.环境及版本

python3.7.1+scrapy1.5.1

2.问题及错误代码详情

优先贴上问题代码，如下：

import scrapy
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor

class MatExamplesSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'mat_examples'
    # allowed_domains = ['matplotlib.org']
    start_urls = ['https://matplotlib.org/gallery/index.html']

    def parse(self, response):
        le = LinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='//a[contains(@class, "reference internal")]/@href')
        links = le.extract_links(response)
        print(response.url)
        print(type(links))
        print(links)

运行代码后报错如下：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 654, in _runCallbacks
    current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw)
  File "/Users/eric.luo/Desktop/Python/matplotlib_examples/matplotlib_examples/spiders/mat_examples.py", line 14, in parse
    links = le.extract_links(response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py", line 128, in extract_links
    links = self._extract_links(doc, response.url, response.encoding, base_url)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py", line 109, in _extract_links
    return self.link_extractor._extract_links(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py", line 58, in _extract_links
    for el, attr, attr_val in self._iter_links(selector.root):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py", line 46, in _iter_links
    for el in document.iter(etree.Element):
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'iter'

出现错误后自检代码并未发现问题，上网查找也未发现相关的问题；于是将代码改成（restrict_css）去抓取数据，发现是能正常获取到数据的，于是改回xpath；但这次先不使用linkextractor，采用scrapy自带的response.xpath()方法去获取对应链接所在标签的href属性值；发现这样是可以获取到正常的数据的：

即将：

le = LinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='//a[contains(@class, "reference internal")]/@href')
links = le.extract_links(response) 

改成：

links = respon.xpath(‘//a[contains(@class, "reference internal")]/@href').extract()

然后又发现报错是： 'str' object has no attribute 'iter'

而正常返回的links数据类型应该是list才对，不应该是str，所以猜测可能是由于规则写错了导致获取的数据不是list而变成了一个不知道的str；这样针对性的去修改restrict_xpaths中的规则，最后发现去掉／@href后能够获取我所需要的正常的数据；

即将：

le = LinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='//a[contains(@class, "reference internal")]/@href')

改成：

le = LinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='//a[contains(@class, "reference internal")]')

重新运行代码，发现成功获取数据，输出结果如下截图所示：

*****爬虫初学者，不喜勿喷*****