Scrapy DockerHub

Deploy, run and monitor your Scrapy spiders.

It utilizes Fabric command line utility to manage remote Docker containers that run Scrapy spiders

Installation

To use it in your scrapy project, you only need to create fabfile.py in your project directory with following content:

from fabric.api import env

env.hosts = ['my.scrapy.server.net']
env.project = 'my-project'
env.projects_path = '~/scrapy/projects'
env.items_path = '~/scrapy/items'
env.logs_path = '~/scrapy/logs'
env.jobs_path = '~/scrapy/jobs'
env.files_path = '~/scrapy/files'

from scrapy_dockerhub.fabfile import *

In order to manage deploy hosts and paths, please make appropriate changes to this file. All directories will be created automatically.

Dockerfile will be automatically generated during deploy command (see below), but you can generate it manually by using command prepare_dockerfile

If you need to add some building steps or dependencies, please adjust Dockerfile to your needs

Commands

prepare_dockerfile(force=True)

generates sample Dockerfile in current directory. if force=True, existing file will be replaced

deploy()

uploads project to remote server, builds Docker image

schedule(spider, args)

runs new container with Scrapy spider. args are appended to scrapy command line

Example:

fab schedule:spider=dmoz.com

stop(spider, job)

stops Scrapy container

Example:

fab stop:spider=dmoz.com,job=18

jobs()

list all jobs with their stats (number of requests, items, errors)

Example output:

project          spider   job     state   items   requests   errors
abstracts    nature.com    10   running      54        113        0
abstracts    nature.com     9   running      82        163        0
abstracts    nature.com     8   running   1,346      2,498        0

logs(spider, job)

view tail -f of spider log

Example:

fab logs:spider=dmoz.com,job=66