title: Starting Scrapy from a Django view
body: <p>My experience with Scrapy is limited, and each time I use it, it's always through the terminal's commands. How can I get my form data (a url to be scraped) from my django template to communicate with scrapy to start doing scraping? So far, I've only thought of is to get the form's returned data from django's views and then try to reach into the spider.py in scrapy's directory to add the form data's url to the spider's start_urls. From there, I don't really know how to trigger the actual crawling since I'm used to doing it strictly through my terminal with commands like "scrapy crawl dmoz". Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>tiny edit: Just discovered scrapyd... I think I may be headed in the right direction with this.</p>