Scrapy Spider Crawls Successfully But Yields No Items From Parsed Pages
A developer building a Scrapy spider finds that requests complete successfully and pagination follows correctly, but the parse callback never yields any items. The code contains subtle CSS selector and URL-construction bugs that silently produce empty results rather than errors. This is a common early-learning pitfall when getting started with Scrapy's response parsing and item yielding.
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