diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 95371615b..240668184 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -199,3 +199,20 @@ Yes, but you can also use the Scrapy shell which allows you too quickly analyze often, more useful than plain old ``pdb.set_trace()``. For more info see :ref:`topics-shell-inspect-response`. + +Simplest way to dump all my scraped items into a JSON/CSV/XML file? +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +To dump into a JSON file:: + + scrapy crawl myspider --set FEED_URI=items.json --set FEED_FORMAT=json + +To dump into a CSV file:: + + scrapy crawl myspider --set FEED_URI=items.csv --set FEED_FORMAT=csv + +To dump into a XML file:: + + scrapy crawl myspider --set FEED_URI=items.xml --set FEED_FORMAT=xml + +For more information see :ref:`topics-feed-exports`