IAlwaysBeCoding
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                                    how about [thrift](https://diwakergupta.github.io/thrift-missing-guide/)?
I actually tried to do something like this like 6 months ago in order to decrease my development/testing time while developing Scrapy spiders. So, I do a lot of scraping...
`load_item` doesn't even return the field name on fields that it can't parsed(or there is no data), which in my opinion is kinda bad as sometimes it is better to...
@jhermann I think it should be a simple fix of adding kwargs to the API class to set values such as timeouts,stream,proxy,even user-agent to the requests.Session instance stored in self._store...