Quick Start¶

Install scrapy-do using pip:
```
$ pip install scrapy-do
```
Start the daemon in the foreground:
```
$ scrapy-do -n scrapy-do
```
Open another terminal window and store the server’s URL in the client’s configuration file so that you don’t have to type it all the time:
```
$ cat > ~/.scrapy-do.cfg << EOF
> [scrapy-do]
> url=http://localhost:7654
> EOF
```

Download the Scrapy’s Quotesbot example and push the code to the server:

$ git clone https://github.com/scrapy/quotesbot.git
$ cd quotesbot
$ scrapy-do-cl push-project
+----------------+
| spiders        |
|----------------|
| toscrape-css   |
| toscrape-xpath |
+----------------+

Schedule some jobs:

$ scrapy-do-cl schedule-job --project quotesbot \
    --spider toscrape-css --when 'every 5 to 15 minutes'
+--------------------------------------+
| identifier                           |
|--------------------------------------|
| 0a3db618-d8e1-48dc-a557-4e8d705d599c |
+--------------------------------------+

$ scrapy-do-cl schedule-job --project quotesbot --spider toscrape-css
+--------------------------------------+
| identifier                           |
|--------------------------------------|
| b3a61347-92ef-4095-bb68-0702270a52b8 |
+--------------------------------------+

See what’s going on:

$ scrapy-do-cl list-jobs
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------------------+---------+----------------------------+------------+
| identifier                           | project   | spider       | status    | schedule              | actor   | timestamp                  | duration   |
|--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------------------+---------+----------------------------+------------|
| b3a61347-92ef-4095-bb68-0702270a52b8 | quotesbot | toscrape-css | RUNNING   | now                   | USER    | 2018-01-27 08:32:19.781720 |            |
| 0a3db618-d8e1-48dc-a557-4e8d705d599c | quotesbot | toscrape-css | SCHEDULED | every 5 to 15 minutes | USER    | 2018-01-27 08:29:24.749770 |            |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------------------+---------+----------------------------+------------+