How to pass multiple arguments to Scrapy spider (getting error running 'scrapy crawl' with more than one spider is no longer supported)?

Question

I would like to pass multiple user-defined arguments to my scrapy spyder, so I tried to follow this post: How to pass a user defined argument in scrapy spider

However, when I follow the advice there I get an error:

root@ scrapy crawl dmoz -a address= 40-18 48th st -a borough=4
Usage
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  scrapy crawl [options] <spider>

crawl: error: running 'scrapy crawl' with more than one spider is no longer supported

I also tried with various permutations of quotation marks:

root@ scrapy crawl dmoz -a address= "40-18 48th st" -a borough="4"
Usage
=====
  scrapy crawl [options] <spider>
crawl: error: running 'scrapy crawl' with more than one spider is no longer supported

What is the correct way to pass parameters to the Scrapy spider? I would like to pass a username and password for the spider's login/scraping process. Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

No scrapy problem, I guess. It's how your shell interprets input, spliting tokens in spaces. So, you must not have any of them between the key and its value. Try with:

scrapy crawl dmoz -a address="40-18 48th st" -a borough="4"