Need support for making blank requests

[wAnFen1017]

Need support for making blank requests

[Laerte]

You can achieve that using data URI scheme:

yield Request(
    url="data:,dummy",
    callback=self.your_call_back,
)

Logs:

2024-01-10 06:31:46 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <POST data:,dummy> (referer: None)
(Pdb) response.text
dummy

[Gallaecio]

Let me reopen this for documentation purposes, I think we should cover this somewhere, maybe in the FAQ.

PS: Even shorter: data:,

[wAnFen1017]

You can achieve that using data URI scheme:

yield Request(
    url="data:,dummy",
    callback=self.your_call_back,
)

Logs:

2024-01-10 06:31:46 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <POST data:,dummy> (referer: None)
(Pdb) response.text
dummy

Thank you so much! ٩('ω')و

[kevintomsgithub]

Hi 👋🏻 I am pretty new to the codebase and would love to contribute. Thought of getting starting with something simple. Here is my PR #6208. Please let me know your thoughts.