# scrapy/scrapyd

A service daemon to run Scrapy spiders

Repository: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/scrapyd
Homepage: https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-30T03:58:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4961, "days_push": 34, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3101, forks 577 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:43.560859+00:00)

## What it is
Scrapyd is a service daemon for deploying and running Scrapy spiders. It lets you upload Scrapy projects and control spiders via a JSON HTTP API.

## Use cases
- deploy scrapy spiders to a server
- run web scraping jobs on a schedule
- control scrapy spiders via http api
- manage multiple scrapy projects remotely
- queue and monitor scraping jobs

## When to choose
- you already use Scrapy and need centralized spider deployment and execution
- you want a lightweight self-hosted JSON API to schedule and monitor scraping jobs

## When to avoid
- you need a full scraping orchestration platform with dashboards and distributed workers
- you scrape with tools other than Scrapy

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: web-scraping, http-server, scheduling, api-framework
- domain: crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: scrapy, spider-deployment, json-api, daemon, job-queue, automation, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- scrapy/scrapyd (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.560859+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:46:21.408723+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.560859+00:00, sha 250467224b79)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/scrapyd/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:42:45.749280+00:00, sha 90850f413afe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.