Deploy standalone spiders

[scrapinghub]

Deploy standalone spiders

[josericardo]

I don't think shub, as it's very specific to scrapinghub, is ever going to be featured on scrapy.org, is it?

[eliasdorneles]

AFAIK, there are already plans for mentioning it. :)

[jdemaeyer]

Would there be problems when the user decides to expand his spiderfile into a full-blown project? (Can't think of any ad-hoc)

We should be explicit that deploy-spider will completely overwrite a project (its Python egg, that is)

[eliasdorneles]

We should be explicit that deploy-spider will completely overwrite a project (its Python egg, that is)

Hm, right.

Yea, creating the project on-the-fly would mean that if people want to deploy more than one spider to the same project, they'd need to go ahead and create a project.
If we go through with this, we should document that.

[pablohoffman]

We're thinking on supporting standalone spiders, for example by being able to drop the spider code in a text box in dash, without having to pass through the command line for deploying. It would be an alternative way to deploy spiders, like Portia is already.

[jdemaeyer]

Are there any concrete plans to support project-less spiders in Dash/SC?

[pablohoffman]

No concrete plans as of yet, but it's a feature I'd like to see. I hope to have some news soon!