Close a scrapy spider when a condition is met and return the output object

Question

I have made a spider to get reviews from a page like this here using scrapy. I want product reviews only till a certain date(2nd July 2016 in this case). I want to close my spid

Answer 1

To force spider to close you can use raise CloseSpider exception as described here in scrapy docs. Just be sure to return/yield your items before you raise the exception.