Trying to parse this rss feed with scrapy (0.16) console is not working as expected and i have no idea what is going wrong. It seems only attributes such as @href are accessible:
>>> fetch('http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/feed.asp?feedid=183')2014-10-23 12:20:54-0400 [default] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/feed.asp?feedid=183> (referer: None)[s] Available Scrapy objects:[s] item {}[s] request <GET http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/feed.asp?feedid=183>[s] response <200 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/feed.asp?feedid=183>[s] settings <CrawlerSettings module=<module 'ebola.scraper.scrape.settings' from 'ebola\scraper\scrape\settings.pyc'>>[s] spider <BaseSpider 'default' at 0x3efc130>[s] xxs <XmlXPathSelector xpath=None data=u'<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>[s] Useful shortcuts:[s] shelp() Shell help (print this help)[s] fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and update local objects[s] view(response) View response in a browser>>> xxs.select("//entry").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//link").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//link/text()").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//title").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//title/text()").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//link/@href").extract()[]>>> xxs.select("//@href").extract()[u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/feed.asp?feedid=183', u'http://www.cdc.gov/media/index.html', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634459', u'http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/images/p1022-post-arrival-monitoring-300x200.jpg', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634458', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634453', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634436', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634435', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634434', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634417', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634403', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634373', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634367', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634365', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634362', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634361', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634355', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634350', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634349', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634330', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634329', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634328', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634325', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634324', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634322', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634283', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634278', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634277', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634273', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634265', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634262', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634250', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634251', u'http://www.cdc.gov/media/DPK/2014/images/vs-crash-injuries/fb.jpg', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634248', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634234', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634233', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634225', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634224', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634222', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634221', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634323', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634217', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634214', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634178', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634174', u'http://www.cdc.gov/media/images/L2/p1002-smoke-free-housing.jpg', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634173', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634211', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634164', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634157', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634160', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634161', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634146', u'http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8634073']>>>Please keep in mind changing versions of scrapy are not an option, I locked into 0.16 Any ideas are appreciated...
