Changes

ScrapyRT 0.17.0 (2025-07-28)

  • Added support for Scrapy 2.13+.

  • Lowered the minimum required Scrapy version from 2.10 to 2.7.

  • The start_requests API parameter is deprecated in favor of a new spider_start API parameter.

    Same with the corresponding __init__ parameter and attribute of the CrawlManager class.

ScrapyRT 0.16 (2023-02-14)

  • errback method for spider made configurable, errback for spiders will default to None instead of parse

ScrapyRT 0.12 (2021-03-08)

  • added crawl arguments for API

  • removed Python 2 support

  • added Python 3.9 support

  • docs clean up

  • removed superfluous requirements (demjson, six)

  • fixed API crash when spider returns bytes in items output

  • updated unit tests

  • development improvements, moved from Travis to Github Workflows