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+from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
+from scrapy.fetcher import fetch
+from scrapy.http import Request
+from scrapy.item import ScrapedItem
+from scrapy.spider import spiders
+from scrapy.utils import display
+from scrapy import log
+
+class Command(ScrapyCommand):
+    def syntax(self):
+        return "[options] <url> <method>"
+
+    def short_desc(self):
+        return "Parse the URL with the given spider method and print the results"
+
+    def add_options(self, parser):
+        ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
+        parser.add_option("--nolinks", dest="nolinks", action="store_true", help="show extracted links")
+        parser.add_option("--noitems", dest="noitems", action="store_true", help="don't show scraped items")
+        parser.add_option("--nocolour", dest="nocolour", action="store_true", help="avoid using pygments to colorize the output")
+
+    def pipeline_process(self, item, opts):
+        return item
+
+    def run(self, args, opts):
+        if len(args) != 2:
+            print "A URL and method is required"
+            return
+
+        url, method = args
+        responses = fetch([url])
+        for response in responses:
+            spider = spiders.fromurl(response.url)
+            if spider:
+                method = getattr(spider, method)
+                result = method(response)
+
+                links = [i for i in result if isinstance(i, Request)]
+                items = [self.pipeline_process(i, opts) for i in result if isinstance(i, ScrapedItem)]
+                for item in items:
+                    item.__dict__.pop('_adaptors_dict', None)
+
+                display.nocolour = opts.nocolour
+                if not opts.noitems:
+                    print "# Scraped Items", "-"*60
+                    display.pprint(items)
+
+                if opts.nolinks:
+                    print "# Links", "-"*68
+                    display.pprint(links)
+            else:
+                log.msg('cannot find spider for url: %s' % response.url, level=log.ERROR)