Can't get rid of blank rows in csv output - python-3.x

Question

I've written a very tiny script in python scrapy to parse name, street and phone number displayed across multiple pages from yellowpage website. When I run my script i find it working smoothly. However, the only problem i encounter is the way data are getting scraped in csv output. It is always a line (row) gap between two rows. What I meant is: data are getting printed in every other row. Seeing the picture below you will get to know what I meant. If it were not for scrapy, I could have used [newline='']. But, unfortunately I am totally helpless here. How can i get rid of blank lines coming along in the csv output? Thanks in advance to take a look into it.
items.py includes:
import scrapy
class YellowpageItem(scrapy.Item):
name = scrapy.Field()
street = scrapy.Field()
phone = scrapy.Field()
Here is the spider:
import scrapy
class YellowpageSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "YellowpageSp"
start_urls = ["https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=Pizza&geo_location_terms=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA&page={0}".format(page) for page in range(2,6)]
def parse(self, response):
for titles in response.css('div.info'):
name = titles.css('a.business-name span[itemprop=name]::text').extract_first()
street = titles.css('span.street-address::text').extract_first()
phone = titles.css('div[itemprop=telephone]::text').extract_first()
yield {'name': name, 'street': street, 'phone':phone}
Here is how the csv output looks like:
Btw, the command I'm using to get csv output is:
scrapy crawl YellowpageSp -o items.csv -t csv

Answer 1

You can fix it by creating a new FeedExporter. Change your settings.py as below
FEED_EXPORTERS = {
'csv': 'project.exporters.FixLineCsvItemExporter',
}
create a exporters.py in your project
exporters.py
import io
import os
import six
import csv
from scrapy.contrib.exporter import CsvItemExporter
from scrapy.extensions.feedexport import IFeedStorage
from w3lib.url import file_uri_to_path
from zope.interface import implementer
#implementer(IFeedStorage)
class FixedFileFeedStorage(object):
def __init__(self, uri):
self.path = file_uri_to_path(uri)
def open(self, spider):
dirname = os.path.dirname(self.path)
if dirname and not os.path.exists(dirname):
os.makedirs(dirname)
return open(self.path, 'ab')
def store(self, file):
file.close()
class FixLineCsvItemExporter(CsvItemExporter):
def __init__(self, file, include_headers_line=True, join_multivalued=',', **kwargs):
super(FixLineCsvItemExporter, self).__init__(file, include_headers_line, join_multivalued, **kwargs)
self._configure(kwargs, dont_fail=True)
self.stream.close()
storage = FixedFileFeedStorage(file.name)
file = storage.open(file.name)
self.stream = io.TextIOWrapper(
file,
line_buffering=False,
write_through=True,
encoding=self.encoding,
newline="",
) if six.PY3 else file
self.csv_writer = csv.writer(self.stream, **kwargs)
I am on Mac, so can't test its windows behavior. But if above doesn't work then change below part of code and set newline="\n"
self.stream = io.TextIOWrapper(
file,
line_buffering=False,
write_through=True,
encoding=self.encoding,
newline="\n",
) if six.PY3 else file