Scrapy - Crawling

Description

To execute your spider, run the following command within your first_scrapy directory −

scrapy crawl first

Where, first is the name of the spider specified while creating the spider.

Once the spider crawls, you can see the following output −

2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Scrapy started (bot: tutorial)
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Optional features available: ...
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Overridden settings: {}
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled extensions: ...
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares: ...
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares: ...
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled item pipelines: ...
2016-08-09 18:13:07-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Spider opened
2016-08-09 18:13:08-0400 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200) 
<GET http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Resources/> (referer: None)
2016-08-09 18:13:09-0400 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200) 
<GET http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/> (referer: None)
2016-08-09 18:13:09-0400 [scrapy] INFO: Closing spider (finished)

As you can see in the output, for each URL there is a log line which (referer: None) states that the URLs are start URLs and they have no referrers. Next, you should see two new files named Books.html and Resources.html are created in your first_scrapy directory.