Scrapy Redirect_urls Exception.keyerror

I am new to Scrapy & Python, recently launched my first spider. There is a feature that seems to have worked before though now it only works for some of the websites I am tryin

Solution 1:

So, response.request.meta['redirect_urls'] is set by the RedirectMiddleware to any URLs that the request may have gone through while being redirected.

For requests that haven't been redirected, that code will fail with a KeyError.

Since response.request.meta is just a dict, you can use:

item['url_direct'] = response.request.meta.get('redirect_urls')

Or you can check it before setting:

if'redirect_urls'in response.request.meta:
    item['url_direct'] = response.request.meta['redirect_urls']

See also:

• RedirectMiddleware docs
• how to get the original start_url in scrapy (before redirect) (related question)