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    <p>This is a quite lengthy post, but after doing extensive research I couldn't find a solution. I have a mixed Django 1.4.1 / Scrapy 0.14.4 project on OSX 10.8 and I control Scrapy with the Django project's <code>manage.py</code> command as described <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/9197627/1125413">here</a>. For instance, calling </p> <pre><code>python manage.py scrapy crawl example_spider </code></pre> <p>works without a problem. Now I'm at the point where I want to setup the <code>scrapyd</code> web service to deploy my spiders. However, when I execute </p> <pre><code>python manage.py scrapy server </code></pre> <p>then I get this exception:</p> <pre><code>scrapy.exceptions.NotConfigured: Unable to find scrapy.cfg file to infer project data dir </code></pre> <p>So, apparently Scrapy cannot find the <code>scrapy.cfg</code> file because I don't execute it from within the Scrapy project. The other Scrapy commands work, however, because in my Django project's <code>settings.py</code> I did the following:</p> <pre><code>sys.path.append('/absolute/path/to/my/Scrapy/project') os.environ['SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'my_scrapy_project_name.settings' </code></pre> <p><strong>Question 1:</strong> Why can't Scrapy detect the <code>scrapy.cfg</code> file in my setup? How can I resolve this?</p> <hr> <p>Since the stuff mentioned above doesn't work, I tried to get the <code>scrapyd</code> server running using just the <code>scrapy</code> command from within my Scrapy project directory. Executing <code>scrapy server</code> from the top-level directory of my Scrapy project yields the following:</p> <pre><code>$ scrapy server UserWarning: Cannot import scrapy settings module my_scrapy_project_name.settings warnings.warn("Cannot import scrapy settings module %s" % scrapy_module) 2012-08-31 21:58:31+0200 [-] Log opened. 2012-08-31 21:58:32+0200 [-] Scrapyd web console available at http://localhost:6800/ 2012-08-31 21:58:32+0200 [Launcher] Scrapyd started: max_proc=8, runner='scrapyd.runner' 2012-08-31 21:58:32+0200 [-] Site starting on 6800 2012-08-31 21:58:32+0200 [-] Starting factory &lt;twisted.web.server.Site instance at 0x101dd3d88&gt; </code></pre> <p>The server is running without a problem, however, the <code>settings.py</code> file of my Scrapy project cannot be found because the respective environment variable is not set anymore. That's why I do the following in my terminal:</p> <pre><code>export PYTHONPATH=/absolute/path/to/my/Scrapy/project export SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_scrapy_project_name.settings </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, these two commands have no effect. Whenever I execute <code>scrapy server</code> (or any other Scrapy command), I get the message that Scrapy cannot import its project's settings module.</p> <p>My <code>scrapy.cfg</code> only has the following content at the moment:</p> <pre><code>[settings] default = my_scrapy_project_name.settings [deploy:scrapyd] url = http://localhost:6800/ project = my_scrapy_project_name </code></pre> <p>When I try to deploy my Scrapy project to the <code>scrapyd</code> server, it seems to work at first, but then I realized that none of the spiders have been uploaded, probably because the settings file could not be detected. Here is the console output:</p> <pre><code>$ scrapy deploy scrapyd -p my_scrapy_project_name /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/scrapy/utils/project.py:17: UserWarning: Cannot import scrapy settings module my_scrapy_project_name.settings warnings.warn("Cannot import scrapy settings module %s" % scrapy_module) Building egg of event_crawler-1346531706 'build/lib' does not exist -- can't clean it 'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel' does not exist -- can't clean it 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... Deploying event_crawler-1346531706 to http://localhost:6800/addversion.json Server response (200): {"status": "ok", "project": "my_scrapy_project_name", "version": "1346531706", "spiders": 0} </code></pre> <p><strong>Question 2:</strong> How to do the correct export of the path and environment variable above so that this warning disappears?</p> <p><strong>Question 3:</strong> Since the <code>scrapyd</code> server seems to work fine though, how can I upload my spiders correctly? </p> <p>Many thanks in advance!</p>
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