Extracting Links from Scrapy Response Object

This function extracts all links from a Scrapy response object, used to obtain target web page links in web crawling.

Technology Stack : Scrapy

Code Type : Scrapy custom function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_links_from_response(response):
    """
    Extracts all links from a Scrapy response object.
    
    Args:
        response (Scrapy.http.Response): The Scrapy response object from which to extract links.
        
    Returns:
        list: A list of extracted links.
    """
    links = []
    for sel in response.xpath('//a/@href'):
        links.append(sel.get())
    return links