old_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  import scrapy
  from locations.items import GeojsonPointItem
  import json
  import re
  
  class LaSalsaSpider(scrapy.Spider):
      name = "la_salsa"
      allowed_domains = ["www.lasalsa.com"]
      start_urls = (
          'http://lasalsa.com/wp-content/themes/lasalsa-main/locations-search.php?lat=0&lng=0&radius=99999999',
      )
  
      def parse(self, response):
          restaurantData = response.xpath("//markers").extract_first()
          matches = re.finditer("<marker [\S\s]+?\"\/>", restaurantData)
  
  
  
  
          for match in matches:
              matchString = match.group(0)
              fullAddress=re.findall("address=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].replace('&lt;br /&gt;', ',')
              #Accounts for cases with second address line
  
              yield GeojsonPointItem(
                ref=re.findall("name=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                lat=re.findall("latitude=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                lon=re.findall("longitude=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                addr_full=re.findall("address=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].replace('&lt;br /&gt;', ',').strip(),
                city=re.findall("city=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                state=re.findall("state=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                postcode=re.findall("zip=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].strip(),
                phone=re.findall("phone=\"(.*?)\"", matchString)[0].replace(' ','').strip(),
              )
              
new_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  import scrapy
  
  from locations.items import GeojsonPointItem
  
  
  class LaSalsaSpider(scrapy.Spider):
      name = "la_salsa"
      allowed_domains = ["www.lasalsa.com"]
      start_urls = (
          'http://lasalsa.com/wp-content/themes/lasalsa-main/locations-search.php?lat=0&lng=0&radius=99999999',
      )
  
      def parse(self, response):
          for match in response.xpath("//markers/marker"):
              yield GeojsonPointItem(
                  ref=match.xpath('.//@name').extract_first(),
                  lat=float(match.xpath('.//@latitude').extract_first()),
                  lon=float(match.xpath('.//@longitude').extract_first()),
                  addr_full=match.xpath('.//@address').extract_first(),
                  city=match.xpath('.//@city').extract_first(),
                  state=match.xpath('.//@state').extract_first(),
                  postcode=match.xpath('.//@zip').extract_first(),
                  phone=match.xpath('.//@phone').extract_first(),
              )
  
subject: Use xpath instead of regex