Scrapy Scrapes Data But No Output To File

I've been getting blank json files despite successfully being able to execute most of the lines in scrapy shell. When I run the command scrapy crawl courses with my courses bot bei

Solution 1:

You write a wrong word. In parse function change items -> item.

defparse(self, response):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.body_as_unicode(), 'lxml')
    items = []
    for ...
        item = CoursesItem()
        item['title'] = course_info.text
        item['description'] = course_desc.text
        item['requirements'] = course_req.text
        yield items # -> item

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