Count Zyte API requests from the downloader middleware itself

scrapy_zyte_api/_middlewares.py

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ def __init__(self, crawler) -> None:
                 f"{self._max_requests}. The spider will close when it's "
                 f"reached."
             )
+        self._request_count = 0
 
         crawler.signals.connect(
             self._start_requests_processed, signal=_start_requests_processed
@@ -124,29 +125,15 @@ def process_request(self, request, spider):
         if self._param_parser.parse(request) is None:
             return
 
-        self.slot_request(request, spider, force=True)
-
-        if self._max_requests_reached(self._crawler.engine.downloader):
+        self._request_count += 1
+        if self._max_requests and self._request_count > self._max_requests:
             self._crawler.engine.close_spider(spider, "closespider_max_zapi_requests")
             raise IgnoreRequest(
                 f"The request {request} is skipped as {self._max_requests} max "
                 f"Zyte API requests have been reached."
             )
 
-    def _max_requests_reached(self, downloader) -> bool:
-        if not self._max_requests:
-            return False
-
-        zapi_req_count = self._crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/processed", 0)
-        download_req_count = sum(
-            [
-                len(slot.transferring)
-                for slot_id, slot in downloader.slots.items()
-                if slot_id.startswith(self._slot_prefix)
-            ]
-        )
-        total_requests = zapi_req_count + download_req_count
-        return total_requests >= self._max_requests
+        self.slot_request(request, spider, force=True)
 
     def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):
         if (

tests/test_middlewares.py

@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ def start_requests(self):
                 for i in range(spider_requests):
                     meta = {"zyte_api": {"browserHtml": True}}
 
-                    # Alternating requests between ZAPI and non-ZAPI tests if
-                    # ZYTE_API_MAX_REQUESTS solely limits ZAPI Requests.
+                    # Alternating requests between ZAPI and non-ZAPI verifies
+                    # that ZYTE_API_MAX_REQUESTS solely limits ZAPI requests.
 
                     if i % 2:
                         yield Request(
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ def parse(self, response):
         f"Maximum Zyte API requests for this crawl is set at {zapi_max_requests}"
         in caplog.text
     )
-    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/success") <= zapi_max_requests
-    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/processed") <= zapi_max_requests
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/success") == zapi_max_requests
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/processed") == zapi_max_requests
     assert crawler.stats.get_value("item_scraped_count") <= zapi_max_requests + 6
     assert crawler.stats.get_value("finish_reason") == "closespider_max_zapi_requests"
     assert (
@@ -178,6 +178,53 @@ def parse(self, response):
     )
 
 
+@ensureDeferred
+async def test_max_requests_race_condition(caplog):
+    spider_requests = 8
+    zapi_max_requests = 1
+
+    with MockServer(DelayedResource) as server:
+
+        class TestSpider(Spider):
+            name = "test_spider"
+
+            def start_requests(self):
+                for i in range(spider_requests):
+                    meta = {"zyte_api": {"browserHtml": True}}
+                    yield Request("https://example.com", meta=meta, dont_filter=True)
+
+            def parse(self, response):
+                yield Item()
+
+        settings = {
+            "DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES": {
+                "scrapy_zyte_api.ScrapyZyteAPIDownloaderMiddleware": 633
+            },
+            "ZYTE_API_MAX_REQUESTS": zapi_max_requests,
+            "ZYTE_API_URL": server.urljoin("/"),
+            **SETTINGS,
+        }
+
+        crawler = get_crawler(TestSpider, settings_dict=settings)
+        with caplog.at_level("INFO"):
+            await crawler.crawl()
+
+    assert (
+        f"Maximum Zyte API requests for this crawl is set at {zapi_max_requests}"
+        in caplog.text
+    )
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/success") == zapi_max_requests
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("scrapy-zyte-api/processed") == zapi_max_requests
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("item_scraped_count") == zapi_max_requests
+    assert crawler.stats.get_value("finish_reason") == "closespider_max_zapi_requests"
+    assert (
+        crawler.stats.get_value(
+            "downloader/exception_type_count/scrapy.exceptions.IgnoreRequest"
+        )
+        > 0
+    )
+
+
 @ensureDeferred
 async def test_forbidden_domain_start_url():
     class TestSpider(Spider):