Scrapy: Scrapy Shell <url> ValueError: invalid hostname:

[mah1212]

I was following the Scrapy official documentation. When I run the command scrapy shell 'quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/' it shows me the below error

C:\WINDOWS\system32>scrapy shell 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/' 2018-07-01 20:54:02 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.5.0 started (bot: scrapybot) 2018-07-01 20:54:02 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.1.1.0, libxml2 2.9.7, cssselect 1.0.3, parsel 1.4.0, w3lib 1.19.0, Twisted 17.5.0, Python 3.6.4 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Jan 16 2018, 10:22:32) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 17.5.0 (OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017), cryptography 2.1.4, Platform Windows-10-10.0.14393-SP0 2018-07-01 20:54:02 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter', 'LOGSTATS_INTERVAL': 0} 2018-07-01 20:54:02 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions: ['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats', 'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole'] 2018-07-01 20:54:03 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares: ['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware', 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats'] 2018-07-01 20:54:03 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares: ['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware', 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware'] 2018-07-01 20:54:03 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines: [] 2018-07-01 20:54:03 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] DEBUG: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023 2018-07-01 20:54:03 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\scrapy-script.py", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(execute()) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\cmdline.py", line 150, in execute _run_print_help(parser, _run_command, cmd, args, opts) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\cmdline.py", line 90, in _run_print_help func(*a, **kw) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\cmdline.py", line 157, in _run_command cmd.run(args, opts) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\commands\shell.py", line 73, in run shell.start(url=url, redirect=not opts.no_redirect) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\shell.py", line 48, in start self.fetch(url, spider, redirect=redirect) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scrapy\shell.py", line 115, in fetch reactor, self._schedule, request, spider) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\threads.py", line 122, in blockingCallFromThread result.raiseException() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\twisted\python\failure.py", line 372, in raiseException raise self.value.with_traceback(self.tb) ValueError: invalid hostname: 'http

But while using scrapy shell only, it starts and I can do basic operations like working with xpath, etc.

I'm using Windows 10, Scrapy 1.5.0 in Anaconda 1.6.9

[mah1212]

The solution is to use double quotes according to Scrapy Official Documentation. We have to use it scrapy shell "http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/"

[dedenhabibi]

The solution is to use double quotes according to Scrapy Official Documentation. We have to use it scrapy shell "http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/"

Scrapy should revise this example: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/shell.html

[Gallaecio]

@dedenhabibi Could you open a separate issue about that, and detail the parts that need a review?