python-scrapyd-api

A Python wrapper for working with Scrapyd's API.

Current released version: 2.1.2 (see history).

Allows a Python application to talk to, and therefore control, the Scrapy daemon: Scrapyd.

• Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 & 3.4
• Free software: BSD license
• Full documentation
• On the Python Package Index (PyPI)
• Scrapyd's API Documentation

Install

Easiest installation is via pip:

pip install python-scrapyd-api

Quick Usage

Please refer to the full documentation for more detailed usage but to get you started:

>>> from scrapyd_api import ScrapydAPI
>>> scrapyd = ScrapydAPI('http://localhost:6800')

Add a project egg as a new version:

>>> egg = open('some_egg.egg', 'rb')
>>> scrapyd.add_version('project_name', 'version_name', egg)
# Returns the number of spiders in the project.
3
>>> egg.close()

Cancel a scheduled job:

>>> scrapyd.cancel('project_name', '14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6')
# Returns the "previous state" of the job before it was cancelled: 'running' or 'pending'.
'running'

Delete a project and all sibling versions:

>>> scrapyd.delete_project('project_name')
# Returns True if the request was met with an OK response.
True

Delete a version of a project:

>>> scrapyd.delete_version('project_name', 'version_name')
# Returns True if the request was met with an OK response.
True

Request status of a job:

>>> scrapyd.job_status('project_name', '14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6')
# Returns 'running', 'pending', 'finished' or '' for unknown state.
'running'

List all jobs registered:

>>> scrapyd.list_jobs('project_name')
# Returns a dictionary of running, finished and pending job lists.
{
    'pending': [
        {
            u'id': u'24c35...f12ae',
            u'spider': u'spider_name'
        },
    ],
    'running': [
        {
            u'id': u'14a65...b27ce',
            u'spider': u'spider_name',
            u'start_time': u'2014-06-17 22:45:31.975358'
        },
    ],
    'finished': [
        {
            u'id': u'34c23...b21ba',
            u'spider': u'spider_name',
            u'start_time': u'2014-06-17 22:45:31.975358',
            u'end_time': u'2014-06-23 14:01:18.209680'
        }
    ]
}

List all projects registered:

>>> scrapyd.list_projects()
[u'ecom_project', u'estate_agent_project', u'car_project']

Displays the load status of a service registered:

>>> scrapyd.daemon_status()
{u'finished': 0, u'running': 0, u'pending': 0, u'node_name': u'ScrapyMachine'}

List all spiders available to a given project:

>>> scrapyd.list_spiders('project_name')
[u'raw_spider', u'js_enhanced_spider', u'selenium_spider']

List all versions registered to a given project:

>>> scrapyd.list_versions('project_name'):
[u'345', u'346', u'347', u'348']

Schedule a job to run with a specific spider:

# Schedule a job to run with a specific spider.
>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name')
# Returns the Scrapyd job id.
u'14a6599ef67111e38a0e080027880ca6'

Schedule a job to run while passing override settings:

>>> settings = {'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 2}
>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name', settings=settings)
u'25b6588ef67333e38a0e080027880de7'

Schedule a job to run while passing extra attributes to spider initialisation:

>>> scrapyd.schedule('project_name', 'spider_name', extra_attribute='value')
# NB: 'project', 'spider' and 'settings' are reserved kwargs for this
# method and therefore these names should be avoided when trying to pass
# extra attributes to the spider init.
u'25b6588ef67333e38a0e080027880de7'

Setting up the project to contribute code

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md. This will guide you through our pull request guidelines, project setup and testing requirements.

License

2-clause BSD. See the full LICENSE.