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scrapy crawl

scrapy crawl starts a named spider in a Scrapy project. You can pass arguments and write scraped items by appending to or overwriting an output file.

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Syntax

scrapy crawl <spider> [-a NAME=VALUE] [--output FILE[:FORMAT] | --overwrite-output FILE[:FORMAT]]

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Source: Command line tool — Scrapy 2.19.0 documentation. Checked 2026-11-03.