import scrapy class AuthorSpider(scrapy.Spider): name = 'author' start_urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/'] def parse(self, response): # follow links to author pages for href in response.css('.author + a::attr(href)'): yield response.follow(href, self.parse_author) # follow pagination links for href in response.css('li.next a::attr(href)'): yield response.follow(href, self.parse) def parse_author(self, response): def extract_with_css(query): return response.css(query).extract_first().strip() yield { 'name': extract_with_css('h3.author-title::text'), 'birthdate': extract_with_css('.author-born-date::text'), 'bio': extract_with_css('.author-description::text'), }