diff --git a/lib/crawly.ex b/lib/crawly.ex
index 288f2d1f..adcac66f 100644
--- a/lib/crawly.ex
+++ b/lib/crawly.ex
@@ -5,14 +5,27 @@ defmodule Crawly do
 
   @doc """
   Fetches a given url. This function is mainly used for the spiders development
-  when you need to get individual pages and parse them
+  when you need to get individual pages and parse them.
+
+  The fetched URL is being converted to a request, and the request is piped
+  through the middlewares specidied in a config (with the exception of
+  `Crawly.Middlewares.DomainFilter`, `Crawly.Middlewares.RobotsTxt` these 2 are
+  ignored)
+
   """
   @spec fetch(url, headers, options) :: HTTPoison.Response.t()
         when url: binary(),
              headers: [],
              options: []
   def fetch(url, headers \\ [], options \\ []) do
-    request = Crawly.Request.new(url, headers, options)
+    request0 = Crawly.Request.new(url, headers, options)
+    ignored_middlewares = [
+      Crawly.Middlewares.DomainFilter,
+      Crawly.Middlewares.RobotsTxt
+    ]
+    middlewares = request0.middlewares -- ignored_middlewares
+
+    {request, _} = Crawly.Utils.pipe(middlewares, request0, %{})
 
     {fetcher, client_options} = Application.get_env(
       :crawly,
@@ -20,6 +33,24 @@ defmodule Crawly do
       {Crawly.Fetchers.HTTPoisonFetcher, []}
     )
 
-    fetcher.fetch(request, client_options)
+    {:ok, response} = fetcher.fetch(request, client_options)
+    response
+  end
+
+  @doc """
+  Parses a given response with a given spider. Allows to quickly see the outcome
+  of the given :parse_item implementation.
+  """
+  @spec parse(response, spider) :: {:ok, result}
+        when response: Crawly.Response.t(),
+             spider: atom(),
+             result: Crawly.ParsedItem.t()
+  def parse(response, spider) do
+    case Kernel.function_exported?(spider, :parse_item, 1) do
+      false ->
+        {:error, :spider_not_found}
+      true ->
+        spider.parse_item(response)
+    end
   end
 end