Snippet from run scrapy spider inside a python script

gistfile1.py

def stop_reactor():
    reactor.stop() #Stops reactor to prevent script from hanging

if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    #Handles engine_stopped to stop twisted reactor
    dispatcher.connect(stop_reactor, signal=signals.engine_stopped)
    
    spider = EstiloMASpider()
    crawler = Crawler(Settings()) #Loads the settings
    crawler.configure()
    crawler.crawl(spider)
    crawler.start()
    
    #Start log and twisted reactor
    log.start()
    reactor.run()