scrapy.1

.TH SCRAPY 1 "October 17, 2009"
.SH NAME
scrapy \- the Scrapy command-line tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B scrapy
[\fIcommand\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Scrapy is controlled through the \fBscrapy\fR command-line tool. The script provides several commands, for different purposes. Each command supports its own particular syntax. In other words, each command supports a different set of arguments and options.
.SH OPTIONS
.SS fetch\fR [\fIOPTION\fR]  \fIURL\fR
.TP
Fetch a URL using the Scrapy downloader
.TP
.I --headers
Print response HTTP headers instead of body

.SS runspider\fR [\fIOPTION\fR]  \fIspiderfile\fR
Run a spider
.TP
.I --output=FILE
Store scraped items to FILE in XML format

.SS settings [\fIOPTION\fR]
Query Scrapy settings
.TP
.I --get=SETTING
Print raw setting value
.TP
.I --getbool=SETTING
Print setting value, intepreted as a boolean
.TP
.I --getint=SETTING
Print setting value, intepreted as an integer
.TP
.I --getfloat=SETTING
Print setting value, intepreted as an float
.TP
.I --getlist=SETTING
Print setting value, intepreted as an float
.TP
.I --init
Print initial setting value (before loading extensions and spiders)

.SS shell\fR  \fIURL\fR | \fIfile\fR
Launch the interactive scraping console

.SS startproject\fR \fIprojectname\fR
Create new project with an initial project template

.SS --help, -h
Print command help and options
.SS --logfile=FILE
Log file. if omitted stderr will be used
.SS --loglevel=LEVEL, -L LEVEL
Log level (default: None)
.SS --nolog
Disable logging completely
.SS --spider=SPIDER
Always use this spider when arguments are urls
.SS --profile=FILE
Write python cProfile stats to FILE
.SS --lsprof=FILE
Write lsprof profiling stats to FILE
.SS --pidfile=FILE
Write process ID to FILE
.SS --set=NAME=VALUE, -s NAME=VALUE
Set/override setting (may be repeated)

.SH AUTHOR
Scrapy was written by the Scrapy Developers 
<scrapy-developers@googlegroups.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Ignace Mouzannar <mouzannar@gmail.com>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).