History

0.7.2 (2021-12-27)

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• Fix RedisStatsCollector._get_key()
• Fix redis-py dependency version
• Added maximum idle waiting time MAX_IDLE_TIME_BEFORE_CLOSE

0.7.1 (2021-03-27)

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• Fixes datetime parse error for redis-py 3.x.
• Add support for stats extensions.

0.7.1-rc1 (2021-03-27)

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• Fixes datetime parse error for redis-py 3.x.

0.7.1-b1 (2021-03-22)

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• Add support for stats extensions.

0.7.0-dev (unreleased)

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• Unreleased.

0.6.8 (2017-02-14)

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• Fixed automated release due to not matching registered email.

0.6.7 (2016-12-27)

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• Fixes bad formatting in logging message.

0.6.6 (2016-12-20)

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• Fixes wrong message on dupefilter duplicates.

0.6.5 (2016-12-19)

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• Fixed typo in default settings.

0.6.4 (2016-12-18)

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• Fixed data decoding in Python 3.x.
• Added REDIS_ENCODING setting (default utf-8).
• Default to CONCURRENT_REQUESTS value for REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE.
• Renamed queue classes to a proper naming conventiong (backwards compatible).

0.6.3 (2016-07-03)

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• Added REDIS_START_URLS_KEY setting.
• Fixed spider method from_crawler signature.

0.6.2 (2016-06-26)

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• Support redis_cls parameter in REDIS_PARAMS setting.
• Python 3.x compatibility fixed.
• Added SCHEDULER_SERIALIZER setting.

0.6.1 (2016-06-25)

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• Backwards incompatible change: Require explicit DUPEFILTER_CLASS setting.
• Added SCHEDULER_FLUSH_ON_START setting.
• Added REDIS_START_URLS_AS_SET setting.
• Added REDIS_ITEMS_KEY setting.
• Added REDIS_ITEMS_SERIALIZER setting.
• Added REDIS_PARAMS setting.
• Added REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE spider attribute to read start urls in batches.
• Added RedisCrawlSpider.

0.6.0 (2015-07-05)

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• Updated code to be compatible with Scrapy 1.0.
• Added -a domain=... option for example spiders.

0.5.0 (2013-09-02)

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• Added REDIS_URL setting to support Redis connection string.
• Added SCHEDULER_IDLE_BEFORE_CLOSE setting to prevent the spider closing too quickly when the queue is empty. Default value is zero keeping the previous behavior.
• Schedule preemptively requests on item scraped.
• This version is the latest release compatible with Scrapy 0.24.x.

0.4.0 (2013-04-19)

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• Added RedisSpider and RedisMixin classes as building blocks for spiders to be fed through a redis queue.
• Added redis queue stats.
• Let the encoder handle the item as it comes instead converting it to a dict.

0.3.0 (2013-02-18)

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• Added support for different queue classes.
• Changed requests serialization from marshal to cPickle.

0.2.0 (2013-02-17)

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• Improved backward compatibility.
• Added example project.

0.1.0 (2011-09-01)

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• First release on PyPI.