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Scrapy crawler in Cron job

I want to execute my scrapy crawler from cron job .

i create bash file getdata.sh where scrapy project is located with it's spiders

#!/bin/bash
cd /myfolder/crawlers/
scrapy crawl my_spider_name

My crontab looks like this , I want to execute it in every 5 minute

 */5 * * * * sh /myfolder/crawlers/getdata.sh

but it don't works , whats wrong , where is my error ?

when I execute my bash file from terminal sh /myfolder/crawlers/getdata.sh it works fine

Solution

  • I solved this problem including PATH into bash file 

    #!/bin/bash

cd /myfolder/crawlers/
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
scrapy crawl my_spider_name