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+"""
+SpiderManager is the class which locates and manages all website-specific
+spiders
+"""
+
+import sys
+import urlparse
+
+from twisted.plugin import getCache
+
+from scrapy.spider.models import ISpider
+from scrapy import log
+from scrapy.conf import settings
+from scrapy.utils.url import url_is_from_spider
+from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
+
+class TwistedPluginSpiderManager(object):
+    """Spider locator and manager"""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.loaded = False
+        self.default_domain = None
+        self.force_domain = None
+        self.spider_modules = None
+
+    def fromdomain(self, domain_name):
+        return self.asdict().get(domain_name)
+
+    def fromurl(self, url):
+        if self.force_domain:
+            return self.asdict().get(self.force_domain)
+        domain = urlparse.urlparse(url).hostname
+        domain = str(domain).replace('www.', '')
+        if domain:
+            if domain in self.asdict():         # try first locating by domain
+                return self.asdict()[domain]
+            else:                               # else search spider by spider
+                plist = self.asdict().values()
+                for p in plist:
+                    if url_is_from_spider(url, p):
+                        return p
+        spider = self.asdict().get(self.default_domain)
+        if not spider:                          # create a custom spider
+            spiderclassname = settings.get('DEFAULT_SPIDER')
+            if spiderclassname:
+                spider = load_object(spiderclassname)(domain)
+                self.add_spider(spider)
+            
+        return spider
+
+    def asdict(self):
+        return self._spiders
+
+    def load(self, spider_modules=None):
+        if spider_modules is None:
+            spider_modules = settings.getlist('SPIDER_MODULES')
+        self.spider_modules = spider_modules
+        self._invaliddict = {}
+        self._spiders = {}
+
+        modules = [__import__(m, {}, {}, ['']) for m in self.spider_modules]
+        for module in modules:
+            for spider in self._getspiders(ISpider, module):
+                self.add_spider(spider)
+        self.loaded = True
+
+    def add_spider(self, spider):
+        try:
+            ISpider.validateInvariants(spider)
+            self._spiders[spider.domain_name] = spider
+        except Exception, e:
+            self._invaliddict[spider.domain_name] = spider
+            # we can't use the log module here because it may not be available yet
+            print "WARNING: Could not load spider %s: %s" % (spider, e)
+
+    def reload(self, spider_modules=None, skip_domains=None):
+        """Reload spiders by trying to discover any spiders added under the
+        spiders module/packages, removes any spiders removed.
+
+        If skip_domains is passed those spiders won't be reloaded.
+        """
+        skip_domains = set(skip_domains or [])
+        modules = [__import__(m, {}, {}, ['']) for m in self.spider_modules]
+        for m in modules:
+            reload(m)
+        reloaded = 0
+        pdict = self.asdict()
+        for domain, spider in pdict.iteritems():
+            if not domain in skip_domains:
+                reload(sys.modules[spider.__module__])
+                reloaded += 1
+        self.load(spider_modules=spider_modules)  # second call to update spider instances
+        log.msg("Reloaded %d/%d scrapy spiders" % (reloaded, len(pdict)), level=log.DEBUG)
+
+    def _getspiders(self, interface, package):
+        """This is an override of twisted.plugin.getPlugin, because we're
+        interested in catching exceptions thrown when loading spiders such as
+        KeyboardInterrupt
+        """
+        try:
+            allDropins = getCache(package)
+            for dropin in allDropins.itervalues():
+                for plugin in dropin.plugins:
+                    adapted = interface(plugin, None)
+                    if adapted is not None:
+                        yield adapted
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            sys.stderr.write("Interrupted while loading Scrapy spiders\n")
+            sys.exit(2)