package documentation

This module implements the Response class which is used to represent HTTP responses in Scrapy. See documentation in docs/topics/request-response.rst

Module html This module implements the HtmlResponse class which adds encoding discovering through HTML encoding declarations to the TextResponse class.
Module text This module implements the TextResponse class which adds encoding handling and discovering (through HTTP headers) to base Response class.
Module xml This module implements the XmlResponse class which adds encoding discovering through XML encoding declarations to the TextResponse class.

From __init__.py:

Class Response An object that represents an HTTP response, which is usually downloaded (by the Downloader) and fed to the Spiders for processing.