how can i use wget to download files with scrapy

Question

scrapy is not downloading files properly. I have URLs of my items, so I figured I can use wget to download the files.

How can i use wget inside the scrapy process_item function? Alternatively, is there another way of download files?

class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):
    #Name download version
    def image_key(self, url):
        image_guid = url.split('/')[-1]
        return 'full/%s' % (image_guid)

    def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
        if item['image_urls']:
            for image_url in item['image_urls']:
            # wget -nH image_ul -P  images/
            yield Request(image_url)

Answer 1

This code will execute wget, you can replace your comment with the following lines

import subprocess

    ...

subprocess.call(['wget','-nH', image_url, '-P  images/'])

You can read about subprocess.call here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html