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scrapy log handler

I seek your help in the following 2 questions - How do I set the handler for the different log levels like in python. Currently, I have 

STATS_ENABLED = True
STATS_DUMP = True 

LOG_FILE = 'crawl.log'

But the debug messages generated by Scrapy are also added into the log files. Those are very long and ideally, I would like the DEBUG level messages to left on standard error and INFO messages to be dump to my LOG_FILE.

Secondly, in the docs, it says The logging service must be explicitly started through the scrapy.log.start() function. My question is, where do I run this scrapy.log.start()? Is it inside my spider?

Solution

  • Hmm,

    Just wanted to update that I am able to get the logging file handler to file by using

    from twisted.python import log
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, filemode='w', filename='log.txt'""")
observer = log.PythonLoggingObserver()
observer.start()

    however I am unable to get the log to display the spiders' name like from twisted in standard error. I posted this question.