Use the subprocess module or popen constructor. It runs scrapy.exe as a subprocess.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess http://pymotw.com/2/subprocess/ http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/working-with-python-subprocess.html Sorry the links above are very poorly written and lack clarity. This link is a little better: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/calling-an-external-command-in-python On Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:13:04 AM UTC, amg wrote: > hi,... > > > i familiar with running scrapy using the terminal. When i googled about > running scrappy from python script , i got only scattered information. I > like to know how a scrapy crawler can be run using python script in terms > for a beginner. please help... > > regards, > amg > -- 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.
