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

You can override a setting from the command line

https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#command-line-options

For example: scrapy crawl myspider -s LOG_FILE=scrapy.log