Running Multiple spiders in scrapy

Question

1. In scrapy for example if i had two URL\'s that contains different HTML. Now i want to write two individual spiders each for one and want to run both the spiders at

Answer 1

It would probably be easiest to just run two scrapy scripts at once from the OS level. They should both be able to save to the same database. Create a shell script to call both scrapy scripts to do them at the same time:

scrapy runspider foo &
scrapy runspider bar

Be sure to make this script executable with chmod +x script_name

To schedule a cronjob every 6 hours, type crontab -e into your terminal, and edit the file as follows:

* */6 * * * path/to/shell/script_name >> path/to/file.log

The first * is minutes, then hours, etc., and an asterik is a wildcard. So this says run the script at any time where the hours is divisible by 6, or every six hours.