Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. If you use HttpAuthMiddleware
(i.e. the http_user
and http_pass
spider attributes) for HTTP authentication, all requests will expose your credentials to the request target. This includes requests generated by Scrapy components, such as robots.txt
requests sent by Scrapy when the ROBOTSTXT_OBEY
setting is set to True
, or as requests reached through redirects. Upgrade to Scrapy 2.5.1 and use the new http_auth_domain
spider attribute to control which domains are allowed to receive the configured HTTP authentication credentials. If you are using Scrapy 1.8 or a lower version, and upgrading to Scrapy 2.5.1 is not an option, you may upgrade to Scrapy 1.8.1 instead. If you cannot upgrade, set your HTTP authentication credentials on a per-request basis, using for example the w3lib.http.basic_auth_header
function to convert your credentials into a value that you can assign to the Authorization
header of your request, instead of defining your credentials globally using HttpAuthMiddleware
.