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A Python wrapper for working with the Scrapyd API

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A Python wrapper for working with Scrapyd’s API.

Allows a Python application to talk to, and therefore control, the Scrapy daemon: Scrapyd.

Install

Easiest installation is via pip:

pip install python-scrapyd-api

Quick Usage

Please refer to the full documentation for more detailed usage but to get you started:

>>> from scrapyd_api import ScrapydAPI
>>> scrapyd = ScrapydAPI('http://localhost:6800')

Add a project egg as a new version:

>>> egg = open('some_egg.egg')
>>> scrapyd.add_version('project_name', 'version_name', egg)
# Returns the number of spiders in the project.
3
>>> egg.close()

Cancel a scheduled job:

>>> scrapyd.cancel('project_name', '14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6')
# Returns True if the request was met with an OK response.
True

Delete a project and all sibling versions:

>>> scrapyd.delete_project('project_name')
# Returns True if the request was met with an OK response.
True

Delete a version of a project:

>>> scrapyd.delete_version('project_name', 'version_name')
# Returns True if the request was met with an OK response.
True

Request status of a job:

>>> scrapyd.job_status('project_name', '14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6')
# Returns 'running', 'pending', 'finished' or '' for unknown state.
'running'

List all jobs registered:

>>> scrapyd.list_jobs('project_name')
# Returns a dict of running, finished and pending job lists.
{
    'pending': [
        {
            u'id': u'24c35...f12ae',
            u'spider': u'spider_name'
        },
    ],
    'running': [
        {
            u'id': u'14a65...b27ce',
            u'spider': u'spider_name',
            u'start_time': u'2014-06-17 22:45:31.975358'
        },
    ],
    'finished': [
        {
            u'id': u'34c23...b21ba',
            u'spider': u'spider_name',
            u'start_time': u'2014-06-17 22:45:31.975358',
            u'end_time': u'2014-06-23 14:01:18.209680'
        }
    ]
}

List all projects registered:

>>> scrapyd.list_projects()
[u'ecom_project', u'estate_agent_project', u'car_project']

List all spiders available to a given project:

>>> scrapyd.list_spiders('project_name')
[u'raw_spider', u'js_enhanced_spider', u'selenium_spider']

List all versions registered to a given project:

>>> scrapyd.list_versions('project_name'):
[u'345', u'346', u'347', u'348']

Schedule a job to run with a specific spider:

# Schedule a job to run with a specific spider.
>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name')
# Returns the Scrapyd job id.
u'14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6'

Schedule a job to run while passing override settings:

>>> settings = {'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 2}
>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name', settings=settings)
u'25b6588ef67333e38a0e080027880de7'

Schedule a job to run while passing extra attributes to spider initialisation:

>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name', extra_attribute='value')
# NB: 'project', 'spider' and 'settings' are reserved kwargs for this
# method and therefore these names should be avoided when trying to pass
# extra attributes to the spider init.
u'25b6588ef67333e38a0e080027880de7'

Setting up the project to contribute code

Please see CONTRIBUTING.rst which is also mirrored in the full documentation. This will guide you through our pull request guidelines, project setup and testing requirements.

License

2-clause BSD. See the full LICENSE.

History

0.2.0 (2015-01-14)

  • Added the new job_status method which can retrieve the job status of a specific job from a project. See docs for usage.

  • Increased and improved test coverage.

0.1.0 (2014-09-16)

  • First release on PyPI.

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