Scrapy Fakeuseragenterror: Error Occurred During Getting Browser

I use Scrapy FakeUserAgent and keep getting this error on my Linux Server. Traceback (most recent call last): File '/usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defe

Solution 1:

I am not sure about RAM and why the error only happens on the Linux Server with a minimum spec. I solved it by using fake-useragent fallback feature. Sadly, scrapy-fake-useragent doesn't give any feature to set it conveniently, so I have to override the middleware feature on middlewares.py like this:

from fake_useragent import UserAgent
from scrapy_fake_useragent.middleware import RandomUserAgentMiddleware

classFakeUserAgentMiddleware(RandomUserAgentMiddleware):
    def__init__(self, crawler):
        super(FakeUserAgentMiddleware, self).__init__(crawler)
        # If failed to get random user agent, use the most common one
        self.ua = UserAgent(fallback='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36')
        self.per_proxy = crawler.settings.get('RANDOM_UA_PER_PROXY', False)
        self.ua_type = crawler.settings.get('RANDOM_UA_TYPE', 'random')
        self.proxy2ua = {}

Then I activate the middleware on settings.py like this:

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware': None,
    # 'scrapy_fake_useragent.middleware.RandomUserAgentMiddleware': 400, # disable the original middleware'myproject.middlewares.FakeUserAgentMiddleware': 400,
    # omitted
}

UPDATE

Try updating fake-useragent to version 0.1.5. I was using 0.1.4 and after upgrading, the problem is gone from the root, not by using fallback.

Solution 2:

Using fake_useragent 0.1.7 here, having same issue.

However I have fixed it for my server. Here is the issue ticket with my suggestion to bypass the error.

https://github.com/hellysmile/fake-useragent/issues/59

Hope that helps.