diff --git a/scrapy/commands/__init__.py b/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
index 97f818cb2..ab850dcb3 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import os
 from optparse import OptionGroup
 from twisted.python import failure
 
-from scrapy.utils.conf import arglist_to_dict
+from scrapy.utils.conf import arglist_to_dict, feed_process_params_from_cli
 from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
 
 
@@ -104,3 +104,27 @@ class ScrapyCommand:
         Entry point for running commands
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class BaseRunSpiderCommand(ScrapyCommand):
+    """
+    Common class used to share functionality between the crawl and runspider commands
+    """
+    def add_options(self, parser):
+        ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
+        parser.add_option("-a", dest="spargs", action="append", default=[], metavar="NAME=VALUE",
+                          help="set spider argument (may be repeated)")
+        parser.add_option("-o", "--output", metavar="FILE", action="append",
+                          help="dump scraped items into FILE (use - for stdout)")
+        parser.add_option("-t", "--output-format", metavar="FORMAT",
+                          help="format to use for dumping items with -o")
+
+    def process_options(self, args, opts):
+        ScrapyCommand.process_options(self, args, opts)
+        try:
+            opts.spargs = arglist_to_dict(opts.spargs)
+        except ValueError:
+            raise UsageError("Invalid -a value, use -a NAME=VALUE", print_help=False)
+        if opts.output:
+            feeds = feed_process_params_from_cli(self.settings, opts.output, opts.output_format)
+            self.settings.set('FEEDS', feeds, priority='cmdline')
diff --git a/scrapy/commands/crawl.py b/scrapy/commands/crawl.py
index 4b2f9484b..e1724c1e6 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/crawl.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/crawl.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
-from scrapy.utils.conf import arglist_to_dict, feed_process_params_from_cli
+from scrapy.commands import BaseRunSpiderCommand
 from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
 
 
-class Command(ScrapyCommand):
+class Command(BaseRunSpiderCommand):
 
     requires_project = True
 
@@ -13,25 +12,6 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
     def short_desc(self):
         return "Run a spider"
 
-    def add_options(self, parser):
-        ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
-        parser.add_option("-a", dest="spargs", action="append", default=[], metavar="NAME=VALUE",
-                          help="set spider argument (may be repeated)")
-        parser.add_option("-o", "--output", metavar="FILE", action="append",
-                          help="dump scraped items into FILE (use - for stdout)")
-        parser.add_option("-t", "--output-format", metavar="FORMAT",
-                          help="format to use for dumping items with -o")
-
-    def process_options(self, args, opts):
-        ScrapyCommand.process_options(self, args, opts)
-        try:
-            opts.spargs = arglist_to_dict(opts.spargs)
-        except ValueError:
-            raise UsageError("Invalid -a value, use -a NAME=VALUE", print_help=False)
-        if opts.output:
-            feeds = feed_process_params_from_cli(self.settings, opts.output, opts.output_format)
-            self.settings.set('FEEDS', feeds, priority='cmdline')
-
     def run(self, args, opts):
         if len(args) < 1:
             raise UsageError()
diff --git a/scrapy/commands/runspider.py b/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
index 62510609a..befee021b 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ import os
 from importlib import import_module
 
 from scrapy.utils.spider import iter_spider_classes
-from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
 from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
-from scrapy.utils.conf import arglist_to_dict, feed_process_params_from_cli
+from scrapy.commands import BaseRunSpiderCommand
 
 
 def _import_file(filepath):
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ def _import_file(filepath):
     return module
 
 
-class Command(ScrapyCommand):
+class Command(BaseRunSpiderCommand):
 
     requires_project = False
     default_settings = {'SPIDER_LOADER_WARN_ONLY': True}
@@ -38,25 +37,6 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
     def long_desc(self):
         return "Run the spider defined in the given file"
 
-    def add_options(self, parser):
-        ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
-        parser.add_option("-a", dest="spargs", action="append", default=[], metavar="NAME=VALUE",
-                          help="set spider argument (may be repeated)")
-        parser.add_option("-o", "--output", metavar="FILE", action="append",
-                          help="dump scraped items into FILE (use - for stdout)")
-        parser.add_option("-t", "--output-format", metavar="FORMAT",
-                          help="format to use for dumping items with -o")
-
-    def process_options(self, args, opts):
-        ScrapyCommand.process_options(self, args, opts)
-        try:
-            opts.spargs = arglist_to_dict(opts.spargs)
-        except ValueError:
-            raise UsageError("Invalid -a value, use -a NAME=VALUE", print_help=False)
-        if opts.output:
-            feeds = feed_process_params_from_cli(self.settings, opts.output, opts.output_format)
-            self.settings.set('FEEDS', feeds, priority='cmdline')
-
     def run(self, args, opts):
         if len(args) != 1:
             raise UsageError()