Scrapy crawler in Cron job

Question

I want to execute my scrapy crawler from cron job .

i create bash file getdata.sh where scrapy project is located with it\'s spiders

#!/bin/bash
cd /         


        

Answer 1

For anyone who used pip3 (or similar) to install scrapy, here is a simple inline solution:

*/10 * * * * cd ~/project/path && ~/.local/bin/scrapy crawl something >> ~/crawl.log 2>&1

Replace:

*/10 * * * * with your cron pattern

~/project/path with the path to your scrapy project (where your scrapy.cfg is)

something with the spider name (use scrapy list in your project to find out)

~/crawl.log with your log file position (in case you want to have logging)