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scrapy-jsonrpc

scrapy-jsonrpc is an extension to control a running Scrapy web crawler via
JSON-RPC. The service provides access to the main Crawler object via the
JSON-RPC 2.0_ protocol.

Installation

Install scrapy-jsonrpc using pip::

$ pip install scrapy-jsonrpc

Configuration

First, you need to include the entension to your EXTENSIONS dict in
settings.py, for example::

EXTENSIONS = {
    'scrapy_jsonrpc.webservice.WebService': 500,
}

Then, you need to enable the extension with the JSONRPC_ENABLED_ setting,
set to True.

The web server will listen on a port specified in JSONRPC_PORT_
(by default, it will try to listen on port 6080),
and will log to the file specified in JSONRPC_LOGFILE_.

The endpoint for accessing the crawler object is::

http://localhost:6080/crawler

Example client

There is a command line tool provided for illustration purposes on how to build
a client. You can find it in example-client.py. It supports a few basic
commands such as listing the running spiders, etc.

Settings

These are the settings that control the web service behaviour:

JSONRPC_ENABLED

Default: False

A boolean which specifies if the web service will be enabled (provided its
extension is also enabled).

JSONRPC_LOGFILE

Default: None

A file to use for logging HTTP requests made to the web service. If unset web
the log is sent to standard scrapy log.

JSONRPC_PORT

Default: [6080, 7030]

The port range to use for the web service. If set to None or 0, a
dynamically assigned port is used.

JSONRPC_HOST

Default: '127.0.0.1'

The interface the web service should listen on.

.. _JSON-RPC 2.0: http://www.jsonrpc.org/