scrapy/docs
ajbmachon 4e175e7930 Add spider middleware start request processing to lifecycle docs
Address reviewer feedback that spider middleware coverage was incomplete.
Changes include:

- Add new "Start request processing" section explaining process_start()
- Update lifecycle overview to include start processing as phase 2
- Update spider middleware section to show both integration points
- Update sequence diagram to show START PHASE and CRAWL PHASE
- Add missing signal mentions (engine_started, spider_opened,
  request_dropped, spider_closed)
2025-12-31 13:20:45 +01:00
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_ext Update tool versions (#7127) 2025-10-27 14:11:31 +01:00
_static Feature the new logo in the README (#6831) 2025-06-06 12:43:56 +05:00
_templates Link to scrapy.org from the docs (#6780) 2025-05-07 16:11:22 +02:00
_tests Remove trailing whitespace 2025-03-11 11:56:44 +01:00
intro Remove Python 3.9 support (#7121) 2025-10-27 12:37:49 +01:00
topics Add spider middleware start request processing to lifecycle docs 2025-12-31 13:20:45 +01:00
utils IOError and other cleanup (#4716) 2023-06-21 20:08:53 +02:00
Makefile chore(docs): refactor config (#6623) 2025-01-20 12:18:30 +01:00
README.rst Typo: cleanup (verb) → clean up (#5538) 2022-06-20 11:54:05 +02:00
conf.py Remove the deprecated sphinx-hoverxref (#6922) 2025-11-14 15:39:21 +05:00
conftest.py adding black formatter to all the code 2022-11-29 11:30:46 -03:00
contributing.rst Replace Black with Ruff in contributing.rst. (#6903) 2025-06-23 22:25:56 +05:00
faq.rst Deprecate spider args of middlewares and pipelines. (#7006) 2025-08-21 13:23:10 +05:00
index.rst Add lifecycle documentation to toctree 2025-12-30 08:35:22 +01:00
news.rst Refactor MediaPipeline.process_item() to async def (#7177) 2025-12-15 10:02:04 +01:00
requirements.txt Remove the deprecated sphinx-hoverxref (#6922) 2025-11-14 15:39:21 +05:00
versioning.rst Update tool versions (#7127) 2025-10-27 14:11:31 +01:00

README.rst

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Scrapy documentation quick start guide

This file provides a quick guide on how to compile the Scrapy documentation.

Setup the environment

To compile the documentation you need Sphinx Python library. To install it and all its dependencies run the following command from this dir

pip install -r requirements.txt

Compile the documentation

To compile the documentation (to classic HTML output) run the following command from this dir:

make html

Documentation will be generated (in HTML format) inside the build/html dir.

View the documentation

To view the documentation run the following command:

make htmlview

This command will fire up your default browser and open the main page of your (previously generated) HTML documentation.

Start over

To clean up all generated documentation files and start from scratch run:

make clean

Keep in mind that this command won't touch any documentation source files.

Recreating documentation on the fly

There is a way to recreate the doc automatically when you make changes, you need to install watchdog (pip install watchdog) and then use:

make watch

Alternative method using tox

To compile the documentation to HTML run the following command:

tox -e docs

Documentation will be generated (in HTML format) inside the .tox/docs/tmp/html dir.

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