Run multiple scrapy spiders at once using scrapyd

Question

I'm using scrapy for a project where I want to scrape a number of sites - possibly hundreds - and I have to write a specific spider for each site. I can schedule one spider in a project deployed to scrapyd using:

curl http://localhost:6800/schedule.json -d project=myproject -d spider=spider2

But how do I schedule all spiders in a project at once?

All help much appreciated!

Answer 1

My solution for running 200+ spiders at once has been to create a custom command for the project. See http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/commands.html#custom-project-commands for more information about implementing custom commands.

YOURPROJECTNAME/commands/allcrawl.py :

from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
import urllib
import urllib2
from scrapy import log

class AllCrawlCommand(ScrapyCommand):

    requires_project = True
    default_settings = {'LOG_ENABLED': False}

    def short_desc(self):
        return "Schedule a run for all available spiders"

    def run(self, args, opts):
        url = 'http://localhost:6800/schedule.json'
        for s in self.crawler.spiders.list():
            values = {'project' : 'YOUR_PROJECT_NAME', 'spider' : s}
            data = urllib.urlencode(values)
            req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
            response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
            log.msg(response)

Make sure to include the following in your settings.py

COMMANDS_MODULE = 'YOURPROJECTNAME.commands'

Then from the command line (in your project directory) you can simply type

scrapy allcrawl