Passing arguments to process.crawl in Scrapy python

Question

I would like to get the same result as this command line : scrapy crawl linkedin_anonymous -a first=James -a last=Bond -o output.json

My script is as follows :

Answer 1

You can do it the easy way:

from scrapy import cmdline

cmdline.execute("scrapy crawl linkedin_anonymous -a first=James -a last=Bond -o output.json".split())