Scrivere elementi in un database MySQL in Scrapy

Prova il seguente codice nella tua pipeline

import sys
import MySQLdb
import hashlib
from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
from scrapy.http import Request

class MySQLStorePipeline(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.conn = MySQLdb.connect('host', 'user', 'passwd', 
                                    'dbname', charset="utf8",
                                    use_unicode=True)
        self.cursor = self.conn.cursor()

    def process_item(self, item, spider):    
        try:
            self.cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO example_book_store (book_name, price)  
                        VALUES (%s, %s)""", 
                       (item['book_name'].encode('utf-8'), 
                        item['price'].encode('utf-8')))            
            self.conn.commit()            
        except MySQLdb.Error, e:
            print "Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
        return item