Scraping a JSON response with Scrapy

It's the same as using Scrapy's HtmlXPathSelector for html responses. The only difference is that you should use json module to parse the response:

class MySpider(BaseSpider):
    ...


    def parse(self, response):
         jsonresponse = json.loads(response.text)

         item = MyItem()
         item["firstName"] = jsonresponse["firstName"]             

         return item

Hope that helps.

Don't need to use json module to parse the reponse object.

class MySpider(BaseSpider):
...


def parse(self, response):
     jsonresponse = response.json()

     item = MyItem()
     item["firstName"] = jsonresponse.get("firstName", "")           

     return item