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Python

My response outputs "content+scrapy" instead of "ken.alger+scrapy" (???)

My code returns a different results than in the course...

from scrapy.http import FormRequest
from scrapy.spiders import Spider


class FormSpider(Spider):

    name = 'horseForm'

    start_urls = ['https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/form.html']

    def parse(self, response):
        formdata =  {'firstname': 'Ken',
                     'lastname': 'Alger',
                     'jobtitle': 'Teacher'}

        # Submits the formdata above to the form and submits it.
        return FormRequest.from_response(response, formnumber=0,
                                         formdata=formdata,
                                         callback=self.after_post)


    def after_post(self, response):
        #print('Form processed.\n', response)
        print('\n\n****** Form processed ******\n\n')
        # Prints <200 https://formspree.io/content+scrapy@teamtreehouse.com> instead of <200 https://formspree.io/ken.alger+scrapy@teamtreehouse.com>
        print(response)
        # Prints the entire page html, js and all
        #print(response.text)
        print('\n\n****** Script completed ******\n\n')

I'm not sure why it returns "content" instead of the "firstname.lastname" as seen in class.

1 Answer

Hey Beau Genereux ! It looks like that is just Ken's account for formspree.io. I think the point in the video is to make sure that you get a 200 response code back when printing the response