port error in scrapy

Question

I have designed a crawler where there will be two spiders.I have designed these using scrapy.
These spiders will run independently by fetching data from the database.

We are running these spiders using a reactor.As we know that we cannot run the reactor repeatedly
we give some 500+ links to the second spider to crawl. If we do like this we have a problem of port error. i.e scrapy is using only single port

Error caught on signal handler: <bound method ?.start_listening of <scrapy.telnet.TelnetConsole instance at 0x0467B440>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1070, in _inlineCallbacks
result = g.send(result)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\core\engine.py", line 75, in start yield self.signals.send_catch_log_deferred(signal=signals.engine_started)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\signalmanager.py", line 23, in send_catch_log_deferred
return signal.send_catch_log_deferred(*a, **kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\utils\signal.py", line 53, in send_catch_log_deferred
*arguments, **named)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 137, in maybeDeferred
result = f(*args, **kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\xlib\pydispatch\robustapply.py", line 47, in robustApply
return receiver(*arguments, **named)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\telnet.py", line 47, in start_listening
self.port = listen_tcp(self.portrange, self.host, self)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.5-py2.7.egg\scrapy\utils\reactor.py", line 14, in listen_tcp
return reactor.listenTCP(x, factory, interface=host)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\posixbase.py", line 489, in listenTCP
p.startListening()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 980, in startListening
raise CannotListenError(self.interface, self.port, le)
twisted.internet.error.CannotListenError: Couldn't listen on 0.0.0.0:6073: [Errno 10048] Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.

So what is the problem occuring here?? Then what is the optimal way to solve this scenario??Please help...

p.s: I have increased the number of ports in settings but it is always taking 6073 as default.

Answer 1

Easiest way would be to disable the Telnet Console by adding this to your settings.py:

EXTENSIONS = {
   'scrapy.telnet.TelnetConsole': None
}

See also http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#extensions for a list of by-default enabled extensions.