Scrapy Splash On Ubuntu Server: Got An Unexpected Keyword Argument 'encoding'

The Scrapy Splash I am using is working just fine on my local machine, but it returns this error when I use it on my Ubuntu server. Why is that? Is it caused by low memory? File

Solution 1:

TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoding'

It seems that you passing somewhere to class init (instance creating probably) an extra parameter 'encoding'. Try to investigate that.

Solution 2:

I solve it by using the exact URL instead:

SPLASH_URL = 'http://therealip:8050'

Any localhost solution doesn't work. I think it's a bug in Scrapy Splash.

UPDATE

It turns out, the error is also gone if I turn off Crawlera. But then it reproduces another error. It's best to not use localhost in the configuration.