CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

scrapy itemloader example

def parse(self, response):
        l = ItemLoader(item=Area(), response=response)
        l.add_value('id', parse_qs(response.xpath('//div[@class="clearfix subnav level-1"]//li//a[2]/@href').extract()[0])['area_id'][0])
        l.add_xpath('name', '//div[@class="clearfix subnav level-1"]//li//a[2]/text()')
        l.add_value('updated', datetime.utcnow().isoformat()) # you can also use literal values
        return l.load_item()
        #self.log('URL: {}'.format(response.url))