You need to declare the file in package_data (setup.py) and use pkgutil.get_data().
See this message for a practical example: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scrapy-users/B70eq1_N3Fk/vR7aDeizj_sJ On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Hakim Benoudjit <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to deploy my scrapy crawlers, but the problem is that I have a > *yaml > file *that I'm trying to load from inside the *spider*, > this works when the spider is loaded from the shell: *scrapy crawl > <spider-name>*. > But when the spider is deployed from *scrapyd*, the *path to the yaml *file > must be *absolute*. > > Is there a way to use a *relative path *for the *yaml file*, even when > spiders are deployed with *scrapyd*? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "scrapy-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
