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.. _topics-practices:
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Common Practices
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The section documents sommon common practices when using Scrapy. These are
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things that don't often fall into other specific sections, or cover many of
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them.
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.. _run-from-script:
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Run Scrapy from a script
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========================
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You can use the :ref:`API <topics-api>` to run script from a script, instead of
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the typical way of running Scrapy via ``scrapy crawl``.
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What follows is a working example of how to do that, using the `testspiders`_
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project as example. Remember that Scrapy is asynchronous so you need run inside
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the Twisted reactor.
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::
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from twisted.internet import reactor
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from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
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from scrapy.settings import Settings
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from scrapy import log
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from testspiders.spiders.followall import FollowAllSpider
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spider = FollowAllSpider(domain='scrapinghub.com')
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crawler = Crawler(Settings())
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crawler.configure()
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crawler.crawl(spider)
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crawler.start()
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log.start()
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reactor.run() # the script will block here
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Running multiple spiders in the same process
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============================================
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By default, Scrapy runs a single spider per process when you run ``scrapy
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crawl``. However, Scrapy supports running multiple spiders per process if you
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use the :ref:`internal API <topics-api>`.
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Here is an example, using the `testspiders`_ project:
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::
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from twisted.internet import reactor
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from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
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from scrapy.settings import Settings
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from scrapy import log
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from testspiders.spiders.followall import FollowAllSpider
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def setup_crawler(domain):
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spider = FollowAllSpider(domain=domain)
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crawler = Crawler(Settings())
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crawler.configure()
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crawler.crawl(spider)
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crawler.start()
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for domain in ['scrapinghub.com', 'insophia.com']:
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setup_crawler(domain)
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log.start()
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reactor.run()
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See also: :ref:`run-from-script`.
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.. _distributed-crawls:
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Distributed crawls
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Scrapy doesn't provide any built-in facility to distribute crawls, however
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there are some ways to distribute crawls, depending on what kind of crawling
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you do.
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If you have many spiders, the obvious way to distribute the load is to setup
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many Scrapyd instances and distribute spider runs among those.
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If you instead want to run a single (big) spider through many machines, what
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you usually do is to partition the urls to crawl and send them to each separate
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spider. Here is a concrete example:
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First, you prepare a list of urls to crawl and put them into separate
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files/urls::
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http://somedomain.com/urls-to-crawl/spider1/part1.list
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http://somedomain.com/urls-to-crawl/spider1/part2.list
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http://somedomain.com/urls-to-crawl/spider1/part3.list
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Then you would fire a spider run on 3 different Scrapyd servers. The spider
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would receive a spider argument ``part`` with the number of the partition to
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crawl::
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curl http://scrapy1.mycompany.com:6800/schedule.json -d project=myproject -d spider=spider1 -d part=1
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curl http://scrapy2.mycompany.com:6800/schedule.json -d project=myproject -d spider=spider1 -d part=2
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curl http://scrapy3.mycompany.com:6800/schedule.json -d project=myproject -d spider=spider1 -d part=3
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.. _bans:
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Avoiding getting banned
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Some websites implement certain measures to prevent bots from crawling them,
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with varying degrees of sophistication. Getting around those measures can be
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difficult and tricky, and may sometimes require special infrastructure. Please
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consider contacting `commercial support`_ if in doubt.
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Here are some tips to keep in mind when dealing with these kind of sites:
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* rotate your user agent from a pool of well-known ones from browsers (google
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around to get a list of them)
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* disable cookies (see :setting:`COOKIES_ENABLED`) as some sites may use
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cookies to spot bot behaviour
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* use download delays (2 or higher). See :setting:`DOWNLOAD_DELAY` setting.
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* is possible, use `Google cache`_ to fetch pages, instead of hitting the sites
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directly
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* use a pool of rotating IPs. For example, the free `Tor project`_ or paid
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services like `ProxyMesh`_
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If you are still unable to prevent your bot getting banned, consider contacting
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`commercial support`_.
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.. _Tor project: https://www.torproject.org/
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.. _commercial support: http://scrapy.org/support/
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.. _ProxyMesh: http://proxymesh.com/
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.. _Google cache: http://www.googleguide.com/cached_pages.html
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.. _testspiders: https://github.com/scrapinghub/testspiders
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