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Item pipelines

An item pipeline processes each item yielded by a spider. Components run in order and can change, pass on, or drop an item.

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Syntax

process_item(self, item)

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  • DropItem
  • ITEM_PIPELINES
  • open_spider
  • close_spider
  • from_crawler
  • ItemAdapter
  • Feed exports

Source: Item Pipeline — Scrapy 2.19.0 documentation. Checked 2026-11-03.