v0.17.0

• Added support for Scrapy 2.13+.

• Lowered the minimum required Scrapy version from 2.10 to 2.7.

• The start_requests API parameter is deprecated in favor of a new
  spider_start API parameter.

  Same with the corresponding __init__ parameter and attribute of the
  CrawlManager class.

v0.16.0

What's Changed

• Handling errbacks by @pawelmhm in #158
• Make the errback handling method configurable by @radostyle in #156

New Contributors

• @radostyle made their first contribution in #156

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.16.0

v0.15.0

• fix compatibility with Scrapy 2.11 on crawler object

v0.14.0

• fix compatibility with scrapy 2.10 #150
• drop end of life pythons (3.6, 3.7)
• add python 3.11 support

v0.13.0

• add support for specifying Twisted reactor in Scrapy settings or ScrapyRT settings, fixes #132
• drop Python 3.5 support
• add Python 3.10 support
• remove distutils call 4e4c6f5
• README updates

v0.12

• dropped Python 2 support
• tested with Python 3.8, 3.9, Scrapy 2.4+, add official support
• option to explicitly pass crawl arguments for spider by "crawl_args" argument to GET and POST endpoints
• bug fix when API was hanging on bytes returned from user spiders
• removed not needed and outdated dependencies such as demjson, six
• documentation lifting (readme.md page in pip and github)

Bug fix release

• fixed bug resulting from fact that since version 19.2.0 Twisted expects http headers of string type
• removed outdated, unused logging code that relied on scrapy.log deprecated in Scrapy

python 3 support, start requests option

Changes

• add support for Python 3. Tested on 3.5
• add boolean argument to execute Scrapy.spider.start_requests method