how to pass parameters to a spider in __init__ function?

[hongleij]

since a spider's __init__ has ''name" and "kwargs" parameters, how
could i pass args to them?

class UserInfoSpider(BaseSpider):
name = "userinfo.sjtu.edu.cn"
#allowed_domains = ["dmoz.org"]
start_urls = [
#"http://pt.sjtu.edu.cn/userdetails.php?id=125", #no user:
]
def __init__(self, name=None, **kwargs):
BaseSpider.__init__(self,name)
self.secret_users = {}

[Pablo Hoffman]

You can pass the arguments with the scrapy crawl command like this:

scrapy crawl myspider -a arg1=val1 -a arg2=val2

In that case, name would be "myspider" and kwargs would be:

{'arg1': 'val1', 'arg2': 'val2'}

Pablo.

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[hongleij]

many Thanks! i test and the result is:
>>> name
>>> kwargs

{'arg1': 'val1', 'arg2': 'val2'}

it seems name parameter will be None

[Pablo Hoffman]

"name" is the spider name, but I'm not sure where you put that debugging code.