forum_loader = ItemLoader(item=forumItem(), selector=threadSel)
                forum_loader.default_output_processor = TakeFirst() #take only the first item of the array of scraped data
                forum_loader.add_xpath('thread_name', ".//td[@class='cell-topic js-cell-topic']/div[@class='topic-wrapper js-topic-wrapper h-wordwrap']/a[@class='topic-title js-topic-title']/text()")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('url',".//td[@class='cell-topic js-cell-topic']/div[@class='topic-wrapper js-topic-wrapper h-wordwrap']/a[@class='topic-title js-topic-title']/@href")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('url_id',".//td[@class='cell-topic js-cell-topic']/div[@class='topic-wrapper js-topic-wrapper h-wordwrap']/a[@class='topic-title js-topic-title']/@href")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('responses',".//td[@class='cell-count']/div[@class='posts-count']/text()")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('dateStarted',".//td[@class='cell-topic js-cell-topic']/div[@class='topic-info h-clear h-hide-on-small h-hide-on-narrow-column']/span[@class='date']/text()")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('dateLastUpdated',".//td[@class='cell-lastpost']/span[@class='post-date']/text()")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('lastPostBy',".//td[@class='cell-lastpost']/div[@class='lastpost-by']/a/text()")
                forum_loader.add_xpath('forum_section',".//td[@class='cell-topic js-cell-topic']/div[@class='topic-info h-clear h-hide-on-small h-hide-on-narrow-column']/span[@class='f-title']/a/text()")
                # yield forum_loader.load_item()
                # print('>>>%s' % url)

                yield scrapy.Request(url, callback=self.parse_thread_details, meta={'itemLoader': forum_loader.load_item()})