Here is an example that does not run inside a custom command, but runs the Reactor manually and creates a new Crawler for each spider:
from twisted.internet import reactor
from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
# scrapy.conf.settings singlton was deprecated last year
from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings
from scrapy import log
def setup_crawler(spider_name):
crawler = Crawler(settings)
crawler.configure()
spider = crawler.spiders.create(spider_name)
crawler.crawl(spider)
crawler.start()
log.start()
settings = get_project_settings()
crawler = Crawler(settings)
crawler.configure()
for spider_name in crawler.spiders.list():
setup_crawler(spider_name)
reactor.run()
You will have to design some signal system to stop the reactor when all spiders are finished.
EDIT: And here is how you can run multiple spiders in a custom command:
from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings
from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
class Command(ScrapyCommand):
requires_project = True
def syntax(self):
return '[options]'
def short_desc(self):
return 'Runs all of the spiders'
def run(self, args, opts):
settings = get_project_settings()
for spider_name in self.crawler.spiders.list():
crawler = Crawler(settings)
crawler.configure()
spider = crawler.spiders.create(spider_name)
crawler.crawl(spider)
crawler.start()
self.crawler.start()