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SCRAPY(1) General Commands Manual SCRAPY(1)

NAME

scrapy - the Scrapy command-line tool

SYNOPSIS

scrapy [command] [OPTIONS] ...

DESCRIPTION

Scrapy is controlled through the scrapy command-line tool. The script provides several commands, for different purposes. Each command supports its own particular syntax. In other words, each command supports a different set of arguments and options.

OPTIONS

fetch [OPTION] URL

Print response HTTP headers instead of body

runspider [OPTION] spiderfile

Run a spider

Store scraped items to FILE in XML format

settings [OPTION]

Query Scrapy settings

Print raw setting value
Print setting value, interpreted as a boolean
Print setting value, interpreted as an integer
Print setting value, interpreted as a float
Print setting value, interpreted as a float
Print initial setting value (before loading extensions and spiders)

shell URL | file

Launch the interactive scraping console

startproject projectname

Create new project with an initial project template

--help, -h

Print command help and options

--logfile=FILE

Log file. if omitted stderr will be used

--loglevel=LEVEL, -L LEVEL

Log level (default: None)

--nolog

Disable logging completely

--spider=SPIDER

Always use this spider when arguments are urls

--profile=FILE

Write python cProfile stats to FILE

--lsprof=FILE

Write lsprof profiling stats to FILE

--pidfile=FILE

Write process ID to FILE

--set=NAME=VALUE, -s NAME=VALUE

Set/override setting (may be repeated)

AUTHOR

Scrapy was written by the Scrapy Developers.

This manual page was written by Ignace Mouzannar <mouzannar@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

October 17, 2009