diff --git a/examples/scripts/count_and_follow_links.py b/examples/scripts/count_and_follow_links.py
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index 4ead870fc..000000000
--- a/examples/scripts/count_and_follow_links.py
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@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Simple script to follow links from a start url. The links are followed in no
-particular order.
-
-Usage:
-count_and_follow_links.py <start_url> <links_to_follow>
-
-Example:
-count_and_follow_links.py http://scrapy.org/ 20
-
-For each page visisted, this script will print the page body size and the
-number of links found.
-"""
-
-import sys
-from urlparse import urljoin
-
-from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
-from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
-from scrapy.http import Request, HtmlResponse
-
-links_followed = 0
-
-def parse(response):
-    global links_followed
-    links_followed += 1
-    if links_followed >= links_to_follow:
-        crawler.stop()
-
-    # ignore non-HTML responses
-    if not isinstance(response, HtmlResponse):
-        return
-
-    links = HtmlXPathSelector(response).select('//a/@href').extract()
-    abslinks = [urljoin(response.url, l) for l in links]
-
-    print "page %2d/%d: %s" % (links_followed, links_to_follow, response.url)
-    print "  size : %d bytes" % len(response.body)
-    print "  links: %d" % len(links)
-    print
-
-    return [Request(l, callback=parse) for l in abslinks]
-
-if len(sys.argv) != 3:
-    print __doc__
-    sys.exit(2)
-
-start_url, links_to_follow = sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2])
-request = Request(start_url, callback=parse)
-crawler = Crawler()
-crawler.crawl(request)
diff --git a/scrapy/crawler.py b/scrapy/crawler.py
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--- a/scrapy/crawler.py
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-"""
-Crawler class
-
-The Crawler class can be used to crawl pages using the Scrapy crawler from
-outside a Scrapy project, for example, from a standalone script. 
-
-To use it, instantiate it and call the "crawl" method with one (or more)
-requests. For example:
-
-    >>> from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
-    >>> from scrapy.http import Request
-    >>> def parse_response(response):
-    ...     print "Visited: %s" % response.url
-    ...
-    >>> request = Request('http://scrapy.org', callback=parse_response)
-    >>> crawler = Crawler()
-    >>> crawler.crawl(request)
-    Visited: http://scrapy.org 
-    >>>
-
-Request callbacks follow the same API of spiders callback, which means that all
-requests returned from the callbacks will be followed.
-
-See examples/scripts/count_and_follow_links.py for a more detailed example.
-
-WARNING: The Crawler class currently has a big limitation - it cannot be used
-more than once in the same Python process. This is due to the fact that Twisted
-reactors cannot be restarted. Hopefully, this limitation will be removed in the
-future.
-"""
-
-from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher
-from scrapy.core.manager import scrapymanager
-from scrapy.core.engine import scrapyengine
-from scrapy.conf import settings as scrapy_settings
-from scrapy import log
-
-class Crawler(object):
-
-    def __init__(self, enable_log=False, stop_on_error=False, silence_errors=False, \
-            settings=None):
-        self.stop_on_error = stop_on_error
-        self.silence_errors = silence_errors
-        # disable offsite middleware (by default) because it prevents free crawling
-        if settings is not None:
-            settings.overrides.update(settings)
-        scrapy_settings.overrides['SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES'] = {
-            'scrapy.contrib.spidermiddleware.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware': None}
-        scrapy_settings.overrides['LOG_ENABLED'] = enable_log
-        scrapymanager.configure()
-        dispatcher.connect(self._logmessage_received, signal=log.logmessage_received)
-
-    def crawl(self, *args):
-        scrapymanager.runonce(*args)
-
-    def stop(self):
-        scrapyengine.stop()
-        log.log_level = log.SILENT
-        scrapyengine.kill()
-
-    def _logmessage_received(self, message, level):
-        if level <= log.ERROR:
-            if not self.silence_errors:
-                print "Crawler error: %s" % message
-            if self.stop_on_error:
-                self.stop()