@start_requests decorator

The @start_requests decorator adds an option to send custom HTTP methods (POST, PUT, PATCH, etc).

Warning

@start_requests() is only supported on BeautifulSoup4, lxml and Parsel backends.

To register custom Request objects, simply wrap a generator with @start_requests decorator. Click on the annotations (+ sign) for more details.

Python

from dude import Request # (1)


@start_requests()
def custom_requests():
    for url in ["https://dude.ron.sh"]:
        yield Request(method="GET", url=url) # (2)


@select(css="a.url")
def result_url(soup):
    return {"url": soup["href"]}


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import dude

    dude.run(urls=[], parser="bs4") # (3)

1. Import the Request class.
2. It is necessary to specify the HTTP method.
3. url param should be set to an empty list if not needed.