Scrapy URLError>>> ERROR: Caught exception reading instance data

scrapy运行爬虫URLError信息如下：

scrapy crawl book
/home/xxxxxxx/work/python/tutorial/tutorial/spiders/book_spider.py:1: ScrapyDeprecationWarning: Module `scrapy.spider` is deprecated, use `scrapy.spiders` instead
  from scrapy.spider import Spider
2017-06-09 11:34:15 [scrapy] INFO: Scrapy 1.0.1 started (bot: tutorial)
2017-06-09 11:34:15 [scrapy] INFO: Optional features available: ssl, http11, boto
2017-06-09 11:34:15 [scrapy] INFO: Overridden settings: {'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'tutorial.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['tutorial.spiders'], 'BOT_NAME': 'tutorial'}
2017-06-09 11:34:15 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled extensions: CloseSpider, TelnetConsole, LogStats, CoreStats, SpiderState
2017-06-09 11:34:15 [boto] DEBUG: Retrieving credentials from metadata server.
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [boto] ERROR: Caught exception reading instance data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/utils.py", line 210, in retry_url
    r = opener.open(req, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1228, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error timed out>
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [boto] ERROR: Unable to read instance data, giving up
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares: HttpAuthMiddleware, DownloadTimeoutMiddleware, UserAgentMiddleware, RetryMiddleware, DefaultHeadersMiddleware, MetaRefreshMiddleware, HttpCompressionMiddleware, RedirectMiddleware, CookiesMiddleware, HttpProxyMiddleware, ChunkedTransferMiddleware, DownloaderStats
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares: HttpErrorMiddleware, OffsiteMiddleware, RefererMiddleware, UrlLengthMiddleware, DepthMiddleware
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled item pipelines:
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] INFO: Spider opened
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] DEBUG: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2017-06-09 11:34:16 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200) <GET http://www.xxxxx.com/> (referer: None)
2017-06-09 11:34:17 [scrapy] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2017-06-09 11:34:17 [scrapy] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 210,
 'downloader/request_count': 1,
 'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 1,
 'downloader/response_bytes': 6280,
 'downloader/response_count': 1,
 'downloader/response_status_count/200': 1,
 'finish_reason': 'finished',
 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 9, 3, 34, 17, 18397),
 'log_count/DEBUG': 3,
 'log_count/ERROR': 2,
 'log_count/INFO': 7,
 'response_received_count': 1,
 'scheduler/dequeued': 1,
 'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 1,
 'scheduler/enqueued': 1,
 'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 1,
 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 9, 3, 34, 16, 575498)}
2017-06-09 11:34:17 [scrapy] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

原因如下：

　　That particular error message is being generated by boto (boto 2.38.0 py27_0), which is used to connect to Amazon S3. Scrapy doesn't have this enabled by default.

解决办法：

网络上广泛给出的解决办法是在项目的settings.py文件中，加上

DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS = {'S3': None,}

但是我按照这个方法添加完运行错误还在，最后在spider.py文件中加入

from scrapy import optional_features
optional_features.remove('boto')

问题得以解决。