A set of tools for controlling processing workflow with spiders and script running in scrapinghub ScrapyCloud.

Installation

pip install shub-workflow

If you want to support s3 tools:

pip install shub-workflow[with-s3-tools]

For google cloud storage tools support:

pip install shub-workflow[with-gcs-tools]

Usage

Check Project Wiki for documentation. You can also see code tests for lots of examples of usage.

Claude Code plugin

shub-workflow ships a Claude Code plugin, shub-workflow-toolkit, that gives Claude working knowledge of shub-workflow tooling. It currently bundles three skills:

• scanjobs-programs — authoring and running the scanjobs job-scanning + plotting tool and its command-line "programs".
• shub-workflow-scripts — writing or fixing scripts built on the shub_workflow.script base classes (BaseScript / BaseLoopScript / BaseLoopScriptAsyncMixin), i.e. any script that runs on or operates on Scrapy Cloud.
• shub-workflow-crawl-managers — building, updating or understanding crawl managers (CrawlManager / PeriodicCrawlManager / GeneratorCrawlManager / AsyncSchedulerCrawlManagerMixin): the set_parameters_gen() pattern, outcome/retry hooks, and async scheduling.

Install it from this repository's plugin marketplace, from inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add scrapinghub/shub-workflow
/plugin install shub-workflow-toolkit@shub-workflow

To enable it automatically for a project, add it to that project's .claude/settings.json:

{
  "enabledPlugins": ["shub-workflow-toolkit@shub-workflow"]
}

Updates

The plugin is unversioned (its plugin.json has no version field), so each commit pushed to this repository is a new version. When Claude Code installs the plugin it copies it into a local cache (~/.claude/plugins/cache/) and uses that copy — it does not read your working tree or re-pull from GitHub on every session. You choose how new commits reach you:

• Automatic. Turn on auto-update for this marketplace: run /plugin, open the Marketplaces tab, and enable auto-update for shub-workflow (or set it in settings — see below). With this on, Claude Code re-pulls the marketplace from GitHub and updates installed plugins at startup, so a new session always loads the latest pushed commit. This is the low-friction option for staying current.

  {
    "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
      "shub-workflow": {
        "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "scrapinghub/shub-workflow" },
        "autoUpdate": true
      }
    },
    "enabledPlugins": ["shub-workflow-toolkit@shub-workflow"]
  }

• Manual. Leave auto-update off (the default for third-party marketplaces). The cached copy stays pinned until you explicitly update — nothing changes under you between sessions. To pull the latest when you want it:

  /plugin marketplace update shub-workflow            # refresh the catalog from GitHub
  /plugin update shub-workflow-toolkit@shub-workflow  # update the installed plugin
  

The plugin lives in plugins/shub-workflow-toolkit/; the marketplace manifest is .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

Note

The requirements for this library are defined in setup.py as usual. The Pipfile files in the repository don't define dependencies. It is only used for setting up a development environment for shub-workflow library development and testing.

For developers

For installing a development environment for shub-workflow, the package comes with Pipfile and Pipfile.lock files. So, clone or fork the repository and do:

> pipenv install --dev
> cp pre-commit .git/hooks/

for installing the environment, and:

> pipenv shell

for initiating it.

There is a script, lint.sh, that you can run everytime you need from the repo root folder, but it is also executed each time you do git commit (provided you installed the pre-commit hook during the installation step described above). It checks code pep8 and typing integrity, via flake8 and mypy.

> ./lint.sh