Scrapy put two spiders in single file

Question

I have written two spiders in single file. When I ran scrapy runspider two_spiders.py, only the first Spider was executed. How can I run both of them without sp

Answer 1

Here is a full Scrapy project with 2 spiders in one file.

# quote_spiders.py
import json
import string

import scrapy
from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
from scrapy.item import Item, Field


class TextCleaningPipeline(object):

    def _clean_text(self, text):
        text = text.replace('“', '').replace('”', '')
        table = str.maketrans({key: None for key in string.punctuation})
        clean_text = text.translate(table)
        return clean_text.lower()

    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        item['text'] = self._clean_text(item['text'])
        return item


class JsonWriterPipeline(object):

    def open_spider(self, spider):
        self.file = open(spider.settings['JSON_FILE'], 'a')

    def close_spider(self, spider):
        self.file.close()

    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        line = json.dumps(dict(item)) + "\n"
        self.file.write(line)
        return item


class QuoteItem(Item):
    text = Field()
    author = Field()
    tags = Field()
    spider = Field()


class QuotesSpiderOne(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "quotes1"

    def start_requests(self):
        urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/', ]
        for url in urls:
            yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse)

    def parse(self, response):
        for quote in response.css('div.quote'):
            item = QuoteItem()
            item['text'] = quote.css('span.text::text').get()
            item['author'] = quote.css('small.author::text').get()
            item['tags'] = quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').getall()
            item['spider'] = self.name
            yield item


class QuotesSpiderTwo(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "quotes2"

    def start_requests(self):
        urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/2/', ]
        for url in urls:
            yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse)

    def parse(self, response):
        for quote in response.css('div.quote'):
            item = QuoteItem()
            item['text'] = quote.css('span.text::text').get()
            item['author'] = quote.css('small.author::text').get()
            item['tags'] = quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').getall()
            item['spider'] = self.name
            yield item


if __name__ == '__main__':
    settings = dict()
    settings['USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)'
    settings['HTTPCACHE_ENABLED'] = True
    settings['JSON_FILE'] = 'items.jl'
    settings['ITEM_PIPELINES'] = dict()
    settings['ITEM_PIPELINES']['__main__.TextCleaningPipeline'] = 800
    settings['ITEM_PIPELINES']['__main__.JsonWriterPipeline'] = 801

    process = CrawlerProcess(settings=settings)
    process.crawl(QuotesSpiderOne)
    process.crawl(QuotesSpiderTwo)
    process.start()

Install Scrapy and run the script

$ pip install Scrapy
$ python quote_spiders.py 

No other file is needed.

This example coupled with graphical debugger of pycharm/vscode can help understand scrapy workflow and make debugging easier.