I’d like to be able to read a file relative to the scrapy root directory, as described in
the documentation.
Is there a way of determining this path from inside the spider?
I’d like to be able to read a file relative to the scrapy root
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I’d like to be able to read a file relative to the scrapy root directory, as described in
the documentation.
Is there a way of determining this path from inside the spider?
I don’t know if scrapy is aware of where it is located on the filesystem, but in my
settings.pyi addPROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))then in spider you can say
Here I have assumed my project root is wherethe settings.py file is located. If you want to get the directory where
scrapy.cfgis you have to go up a directory