From 6431e7a1386e03fff203ae85b6c47a4f0f4cf797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rolando Espinoza Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:24:12 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] DOC State explicitly that spiders are loaded recursively. --- docs/topics/api.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/api.rst b/docs/topics/api.rst index d470a0d41..985cc0433 100644 --- a/docs/topics/api.rst +++ b/docs/topics/api.rst @@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ SpiderLoader API This class method is used by Scrapy to create an instance of the class. It's called with the current project settings, and it loads the spiders - found in the modules of the :setting:`SPIDER_MODULES` setting. + found recursively in the modules of the :setting:`SPIDER_MODULES` + setting. :param settings: project settings :type settings: :class:`~scrapy.settings.Settings` instance