scrapy passing custom_settings to spider from script using CrawlerProcess.crawl()

Question

I am trying to programatically call a spider through a script. I an unable to override the settings through the constructor using CrawlerProcess. Let me illustrate this with

Answer 1

It seems you want to have custom log for each spiders. You need to activate the logging like this:

from scrapy.utils.log import configure_logging

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    #ommited
    def __init__(self):
        configure_logging({'LOG_FILE' : "logs/mylog.log"})