Debug Scrapy?

Hello,

I just had to debug a scrapy application, and after having searched a bit, i came with the following solution (quite easy in fact):

• in your project, create a new python configuration to launch scrapy from PyCharm
• point the script path to scrapy main script ( /usr/bin/scrapy or its path in your virtualenv if you're using one)
• in the script parameters, put the args you usually pass to scrapy ("crawl myspider", "runserver" or whatever)
• in the working directory entry, put the directory where your project's scrapy.cfg is
• put breakpoints where you want to
• push the "Debug" button
• you're done

I know this answer comes many months after the question has been asked, but i post anyway, in the hope it will be useful to someone (or in case the asker hasn't still found a solution).

Regards.