Post request/Form submission with scrapy leads to Error 404 - python-3.x

Question

I am learning how to build a spider using scrapy to scrape this webpage: https://www.beesmart.city. To have access, it is necessary to do a form submission here: https://www.beesmart.city/login
Inspecting the page, I didn't find a CSRF Token so I guess it is not needed in this case.
I used the following code:
import scrapy
class BeesmartLogin(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'beesmart_login'
login_url = 'https://www.beesmart.city/login'
start_urls = [login_url]
def parse(self, response):
# extract the csrf token value
# create a python dictionary with the form values
data = {
'email': '<...#...>',
'password': '********',
}
# submit a POST request to it
yield scrapy.FormRequest(url=self.login_url, formdata=data, callback=self.parse_quotes)
def parse_quotes(self, response):
print("Parsing is done")
When I run it I get a 404 however. Does anyone have an idea why? I am very thankful for any help.
Tobi :)
The full response is:
(base) C:\Users\tobia\OneDrive\Documents\Python Scripts\Webscraping>scrapy runspider beesmart_login.py
2019-04-05 15:21:10 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.5.2 started (bot: scrapybot)
2019-04-05 15:21:10 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.2.1.0, libxml2 2.9.8, cssselect 1.0.3, parsel 1.5.1, w3lib 1.20.0, Twisted 18.9.0, Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 29 2018, 13:32:41) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 18.0.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1b 26 Feb 2019), cryptography 2.6.1, Platform Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
2019-04-05 15:21:10 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'SPIDER_LOADER_WARN_ONLY': True}
2019-04-05 15:21:10 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: ef43803864a4422d
2019-04-05 15:21:10 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares:
['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware',
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats']
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares:
['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware',
'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware']
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines:
[]
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] DEBUG: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET https://www.beesmart.city/login> (referer: None)
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.core.engine] DEBUG: Crawled (404) <POST https://www.beesmart.city/login> (referer: https://www.beesmart.city/login)
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror] INFO: Ignoring response <404 https://www.beesmart.city/login>: HTTP status code is not handled or not allowed
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 657,
'downloader/request_count': 2,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 1,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 1,
'downloader/response_bytes': 10500,
'downloader/response_count': 2,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 1,
'downloader/response_status_count/404': 1,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 5, 13, 21, 11, 770670),
'httperror/response_ignored_count': 1,
'httperror/response_ignored_status_count/404': 1,
'log_count/DEBUG': 3,
'log_count/INFO': 9,
'request_depth_max': 1,
'response_received_count': 2,
'scheduler/dequeued': 2,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 2,
'scheduler/enqueued': 2,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 2,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 5, 13, 21, 11, 50573)}
2019-04-05 15:21:11 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

Answer 1

If you are looking to understand CSFR Tokens - they have been explained on the following SO question
As furas explained it's not possible to use pure scrapy to login over javascript.
I recommend that you read the following article about Web scraping javascript using python