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Scrapyd: No active project - How to schedule spiders with scrapyd

I am trying to schedule a scrapy 2.1.0 spider with the help of scrapyd 1.2

 curl --insecure http://localhost:6800/schedule.json -d project=bid -d spider=test

This should in theory start the crawl for spider test within project bid. Instead it outputs the error message:

 {"node_name": "spider1", "status": "error", "message": "Scrapy 2.1.0 - no active project\n\nUnknown command: list\n\nUse \"scrapy\" to see available commands\n"}

If I cd into the project directory there is the project with several spiders which I can start via "cd /var/spiders/ && scrapy crawl test &".

However beeing in another folder would also give me the message "no active projects":

/var$ scrapy list
Scrapy 2.1.0 - no active project

Unknown command: list

Use "scrapy" to see available commands

This looks like the exact same info I get from scrapyd, so I suspect that I need to configure somehow the working directory where my projects live.

Scrapyd is running and I can access the console via web "gui".

What is the right approach to start the job via scrapyd?

Solution

  • Before you can launch your spider with scrapyd, you'll have to deploy your spider first. You can do this by: