Question

I had multiple spiders in my project folder and want to run all the spiders at once, so i decided to run them using scrapyd service.
I have started doing this by seeing here

First of all i am in current project folder

1. I had opened the scrapy.cfg file and uncommented the url line after

   [deploy]

2. I had run scrapy server command, that works fine and scrapyd server runs

3. I tried this command scrapy deploy -l

   Result : default http://localhost:6800/

4. when i tried this command scrapy deploy -L scrapyd i got following output

Result:

Usage
=====
  scrapy deploy [options] [ [target] | -l | -L <target> ]

deploy: error: Unknown target: scrapyd

when i tried to deploy the project with this command scrapy deploy scrapyd -p default got following error

Usage
=====
  scrapy deploy [options] [ [target] | -l | -L <target> ]

deploy: error: Unknown target: scrapyd

I am really unable to identify whey scrapyd is showing the above errors, can lead me in to a correct way of how to deploy a project in to scrapyd

Thanks in advance……….

Edited Code:

After seeing the answer of Peter Kirby,i named target in scrapy.cfg and tried the following command in my project folder,

command:

scrapy deploy ebsite -p ebsite

then i got the below error

Building egg of ebsite-1341808241
'build/lib' does not exist -- can't clean it
'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' 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 ebsite-1341808241 to http://localhost:6800/addversion.json
Deploy failed: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

How to solve this…..

Answer 1

From scrapyd service documentation: (http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/scrapyd.html?highlight=scrapyd)

You can define targets by adding them to your project’s scrapy.cfg
file… Here’s an example of defining a new target scrapyd2 with
restricted access through HTTP basic authentication:

[deploy:scrapyd2]
url = http://scrapyd.mydomain.com/api/scrapyd/
username = john
password = secret

Essentially what your error means is that your “target” name is not correct. If I remember correctly, the scrapy.cfg file sets the initial target name as “default”. What you should be typing is something like:

scrapy deploy default -p project_name