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I want to use scrapy for crawling web pages. Is there a way to pass the start URL from the terminal itself?
It is given in the documentation that either the name of the spider or the URL can be given, but when i given the url it throws an error:
//name of my spider is example, but i am giving url instead of my spider name(It works fine if i give spider name).
scrapy crawl example.com
ERROR:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Scrapy-0.14.1-py2.7.egg/scrapy/spidermanager.py", line 43, in create raise KeyError("Spider not found: %s" % spider_name) KeyError: 'Spider not found: example.com'
How can i make scrapy to use my spider on the url given in the terminal??