Understanding Scrapy Start URLs and Downloader Middleware Configuration
How Scrapy Processes Start URLs
The Scrapy engine handles initial URLs through the following sequence:
Invokes start_requests and collects its return value
Creates a iterator from the return value
Iterates through results, calling __next__() on each item
Places all generated request objects into the scheduler
Source Implementation
def start_r ...
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