README.md

scrapy-gzip-exporters

Scrapy Item Exporters which allows export into gzip compressed feed. Supported formats: CSV (csv.gz), XML (xml.gz), JSON (json.gz), and JSON lines (jsonl.gz, jsonlines.gz, jl.gz).

This package also adds jsonl output format alias for JSON lines feed.

Setup

Add the following line to your project settings.py:

from scrapy_gzip_exporters import FEED_EXPORTERS

Set desired output format:

FEED_FORMAT = 'csv.gz'

or specify it with --output-format (-t) commandline tool option:

scrapy crawl myspider -o outfile.csv.gz -t csv.gz

Tip

To get CSV encoded in UTF-8 variant understood by Microsoft Excel, set

FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING = 'utf-8-sig'