Scrapy read list of URLs from file to scrape?

Question

I\'ve just installed scrapy and followed their simple dmoz tutorial which works. I just looked up basic file handling for python and tried to get the crawler to read a list

Answer 1

You were pretty close.

f = open("urls.txt")
start_urls = [url.strip() for url in f.readlines()]
f.close()

...better still would be to use the context manager to ensure the file's closed as expected:

with open("urls.txt", "rt") as f:
    start_urls = [url.strip() for url in f.readlines()]