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CrawlerProcess

CrawlerProcess runs Scrapy from a Python script. It starts the reactor, schedules spiders with crawl(), and runs them with start().

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Syntax

AsyncCrawlerProcess(settings=None); process.crawl(spider, *args, **kwargs); process.start()

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  • AsyncCrawlerRunner
  • CrawlerRunner
  • get_project_settings()
  • TWISTED_REACTOR_ENABLED
  • install_reactor()
  • react()
  • configure_logging()

Source: Common Practices — Scrapy 2.19.0 documentation. Checked 2026-11-03.