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+import scrapy
+
+
+class QuotesViewStateSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = "quotes_viewstate"
+    allowed_domains = ["quotes.toscrape.com"]
+    start_urls = ["http://quotes.toscrape.com/search.aspx"]
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        authors = response.css("#author option::attr(value)").getall()
+
+        form_data = {
+            # TODO
+        }
+        for author in authors:
+            yield scrapy.FormRequest(
+                response.urljoin(response.css("form::attr(action)").get()),
+                callback=self.parse_author_tags,
+                formdata=form_data,
+                cb_kwargs={"author": author}
+            )
+
+    def parse_author_tags(self, response, author):
+        # TODO
+        ...