from urllib import urlencode from lxml import html from urlparse import urljoin categories = ['images'] base_url = 'https://www.deviantart.com/' search_url = base_url+'search?' def request(query, params): global search_url params['url'] = search_url + urlencode({'q': query}) return params def response(resp): global base_url results = [] if resp.status_code == 302: return results dom = html.fromstring(resp.text) for result in dom.xpath('//div[contains(@class, "tt-a tt-fh")]'): link = result.xpath('.//a[contains(@class, "thumb")]')[0] url = urljoin(base_url, link.attrib.get('href')) title_links = result.xpath('.//span[@class="details"]//a[contains(@class, "t")]') title = ''.join(title_links[0].xpath('.//text()')) img_src = link.xpath('.//img')[0].attrib['src'] print img_src results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'img_src': img_src, 'template': 'images.html'}) return results