From 98b68ca89dc060e0595cd03ccb49e9dfe05b5299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:31:12 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] scrapyd: documented support for passing setting to spiders in
 schedule.json

---
 docs/topics/scrapyd.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/topics/scrapyd.rst b/docs/topics/scrapyd.rst
index 4e00ea978..081298552 100644
--- a/docs/topics/scrapyd.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/scrapyd.rst
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ Schedule a spider run.
 * Parameters:
   * ``project`` (string, required) - the project name
   * ``spider`` (string, required) - the spider name
+  * ``setting`` (string, optional) - a scrapy setting to use when running the spider
   * any other parameter is passed as spider argument
 
 Example request::
@@ -446,6 +447,12 @@ Example response::
 
     {"status": "ok"}
 
+Example request passing a spider argument (``arg1``) and a setting
+(:setting:`DOWNLOAD_DELAY`)::
+
+    $ curl http://localhost:6800/schedule.json -d project=myproject -d spider=somespider -d setting=DOWNLOAD_DELAY=2 -d arg1=val1
+
+
 listprojects.json
 -----------------