[FIXED] Python Scrapy -> Use a scrapy spider as a function

Issue

so I have the following Scrapy Spider in spiders.py

import scrapy 

class TwitchSpider(scrapy.Spider):
  name = "clips"

  def start_requests(self):
      urls = [
          f'https://www.twitch.tv/wilbursoot/clips?filter=clips&range=7d'
      ]

  def parse(self, response): 
    for clip in response.css('.tw-tower'):
      yield {
        'title': clip.css('::text').get()
      }

But the key aspect is that I want to call this spider as a function, in another file, instead of using scrapy crawl quotes in the console. Where can I read more on this, or whether this is possible at all? I checked through the Scrapy documentation, but I didn't find much

Solution

Run the spider from main.py:

from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings

if __name__ == "__main__":
    spider = 'TwitchSpider'
    settings = get_project_settings()
    # change/update settings:
    settings['USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36'
    process = CrawlerProcess(settings)
    process.crawl(spider)
    process.start()

Run scrapy from a script.

Answered By - SuperUser