scrapy是python的一个非常好用的爬虫库，功能非常强大，但是当我们要爬取的页面非常多的时候，单个主机的处理能力就不能满足我们的需求了（无论是处理速度还是网络请求的并发数），这时候分布式爬虫的优势就显现出来，人多力量大。而scrapy-redis就是结合了分布式数据库redis，重写了scrapy一些比较关键的代码，将scrapy变成一个可以在多个主机上同时运行的分布式爬虫。
scrapy-redis是github上的一个开源项目，可以直接下载到他的源代码：
https://github.com/rolando/scrapy-redis
scrapy-redis的官方文档写的比较简洁，没有提及其运行原理，所以如果想全面的理解分布式爬虫的运行原理，还是得看scrapy-redis的源代码才行（还得先理解scrapy的运行原理，不然看scrapy-redis还是比较费劲），不过scrapy-redis的源代码很少，也比较好懂，很快就能看完。
scrapy-redis工程的主体还是是redis和scrapy两个库，工程本身实现的东西不是很多，这个工程就像胶水一样，把这两个插件粘结了起来。下面我们来看看，scrapy-redis的每一个源代码文件都实现了什么功能，最后如何实现分布式的爬虫系统：
connect.py
import redis
import six
from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
DEFAULT_REDIS_CLS = redis.StrictRedis
# Sane connection defaults.
DEFAULT_PARAMS = {
'socket_timeout': 30,
'socket_connect_timeout': 30,
'retry_on_timeout': True,
}
# Shortcut maps 'setting name' -> 'parmater name'.
SETTINGS_PARAMS_MAP = {
'REDIS_URL': 'url',
'REDIS_HOST': 'host',
'REDIS_PORT': 'port',
}
def get_redis_from_settings(settings):
"""Returns a redis client instance from given Scrapy settings object.
This function uses ``get_client`` to instantiate the client and uses
``DEFAULT_PARAMS`` global as defaults values for the parameters. You can
override them using the ``REDIS_PARAMS`` setting.
Parameters
----------
settings : Settings
A scrapy settings object. See the supported settings below.
Returns
-------
server
Redis client instance.
Other Parameters
----------------
REDIS_URL : str, optional
Server connection URL.
REDIS_HOST : str, optional
Server host.
REDIS_PORT : str, optional
Server port.
REDIS_PARAMS : dict, optional
Additional client parameters.
"""
params = DEFAULT_PARAMS.copy()
params.update(settings.getdict('REDIS_PARAMS'))
# XXX: Deprecate REDIS_* settings.
for source, dest in SETTINGS_PARAMS_MAP.items():
val = settings.get(source)
if val:
params[dest] = val
# Allow ``redis_cls`` to be a path to a class.
if isinstance(params.get('redis_cls'), six.string_types):
params['redis_cls'] = load_object(params['redis_cls'])
return get_redis(**params)
# Backwards compatible alias.
from_settings = get_redis_from_settings
def get_redis(**kwargs):
"""Returns a redis client instance.
Parameters
----------
redis_cls : class, optional
Defaults to ``redis.StrictRedis``.
url : str, optional
If given, ``redis_cls.from_url`` is used to instantiate the class.
**kwargs
Extra parameters to be passed to the ``redis_cls`` class.
Returns
-------
server
Redis client instance.
"""
redis_cls = kwargs.pop('redis_cls', DEFAULT_REDIS_CLS)
url = kwargs.pop('url', None)
if url:
return redis_cls.from_url(url, **kwargs)
else:
return redis_cls(**kwargs)connect文件引入了redis模块，这个是redis-python库的接口，用于通过python访问redis数据库，可见，这个文件主要是实现连接redis数据库的功能（返回的是redis库的Redis对象或者StrictRedis对象，这俩都是可以直接用来进行数据操作的对象）。这些连接接口在其他文件中经常被用到。其中，我们可以看到，要想连接到redis数据库，和其他数据库差不多，需要一个ip地址、端口号、用户名密码（可选）和一个整形的数据库编号，同时我们还可以在scrapy工程的setting文件中配置套接字的超时时间、等待时间等。
dupefilters.py
import logging
import time
from scrapy.dupefilters import BaseDupeFilter
from scrapy.utils.request import request_fingerprint
from .connection import get_redis_from_settings
DEFAULT_DUPEFILTER_KEY = "dupefilter:%(timestamp)s"
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# TODO: Rename class to RedisDupeFilter.
class RFPDupeFilter(BaseDupeFilter):
"""Redis-based request duplicates filter.
This class can also be used with default Scrapy's scheduler.
"""
logger = logger
def __init__(self, server, key, debug=False):
"""Initialize the duplicates filter.
Parameters
----------
server : redis.StrictRedis
The redis server instance.
key : str
Redis key Where to store fingerprints.
debug : bool, optional
Whether to log filtered requests.
"""
self.server = server
self.key = key
self.debug = debug
self.logdupes = True
@classmethod
def from_settings(cls, settings):
"""Returns an instance from given settings.
This uses by default the key ``dupefilter:<timestamp>``. When using the
``scrapy_redis.scheduler.Scheduler`` class, this method is not used as
it needs to pass the spider name in the key.
Parameters
----------
settings : scrapy.settings.Settings
Returns
-------
RFPDupeFilter
A RFPDupeFilter instance.
"""
server = get_redis_from_settings(settings)
# XXX: This creates one-time key. needed to support to use this
# class as standalone dupefilter with scrapy's default scheduler
# if scrapy passes spider on open() method this wouldn't be needed
# TODO: Use SCRAPY_JOB env as default and fallback to timestamp.
key = DEFAULT_DUPEFILTER_KEY % {'timestamp': int(time.time())}
debug = settings.getbool('DUPEFILTER_DEBUG')
return cls(server, key=key, debug=debug)
@classmethod
def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
"""Returns instance from crawler.
Parameters
----------
crawler : scrapy.crawler.Crawler
Returns
-------
RFPDupeFilter
Instance of RFPDupeFilter.
"""
return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings)
def request_seen(self, request):
"""Returns True if request was already seen.
Parameters
----------
request : scrapy.http.Request
Returns
-------
bool
"""
fp = self.request_fingerprint(request)
# This returns the number of values added, zero if already exists.
added = self.server.sadd(self.key, fp)
return added == 0
def request_fingerprint(self, request):
"""Returns a fingerprint for a given request.
Parameters
----------
request : scrapy.http.Request
Returns
-------
str
"""
return request_fingerprint(request)
def close(self, reason=''):
"""Delete data on close. Called by Scrapy's scheduler.
Parameters
----------
reason : str, optional
"""
self.clear()
def clear(self):
"""Clears fingerprints data."""
self.server.delete(self.key)
def log(self, request, spider):
"""Logs given request.
Parameters
----------
request : scrapy.http.Request
spider : scrapy.spiders.Spider
"""
if self.debug:
msg = "Filtered duplicate request: %(request)s"
self.logger.debug(msg, {'request': request}, extra={'spider': spider})
elif self.logdupes:
msg = ("Filtered duplicate request %(request)s"
" - no more duplicates will be shown"
" (see DUPEFILTER_DEBUG to show all duplicates)")
msg = "Filtered duplicate request: %(request)s"
self.logger.debug(msg, {'request': request}, extra={'spider': spider})
self.logdupes = False
这个文件看起来比较复杂，重写了scrapy本身已经实现的request判重功能。因为本身scrapy单机跑的话，只需要读取内存中的request队列或者持久化的request队列（scrapy默认的持久化似乎是json格式的文件，不是数据库）就能判断这次要发出的request url是否已经请求过或者正在调度（本地读就行了）。而分布式跑的话，就需要各个主机上的scheduler都连接同一个数据库的同一个request池来判断这次的请求是否是重复的了。
在这个文件中，通过继承BaseDupeFilter重写他的方法，实现了基于redis的判重。根据源代码来看，scrapy-redis使用了scrapy本身的一个fingerprint接request_fingerprint，这个接口很有趣，根据scrapy文档所说，他通过hash来判断两个url是否相同（相同的url会生成相同的hash结果），但是当两个url的地址相同，get型参数相同但是顺序不同时，也会生成相同的hash结果（这个真的比较神奇。。。）所以scrapy-redis依旧使用url的fingerprint来判断request请求是否已经出现过。这个类通过连接redis，使用一个key来向redis的一个set中插入fingerprint（这个key对于同一种spider是相同的，redis是一个key-value的数据库，如果key是相同的，访问到的值就是相同的，这里使用spider名字+DupeFilter的key就是为了在不同主机上的不同爬虫实例，只要属于同一种spider，就会访问到同一个set，而这个set就是他们的url判重池），如果返回值为0，说明该set中该fingerprint已经存在（因为集合是没有重复值的），则返回False，如果返回值为1，说明添加了一个fingerprint到set中，则说明这个request没有重复，于是返回True，还顺便把新fingerprint加入到数据库中了。
DupeFilter判重会在scheduler类中用到，每一个request在进入调度之前都要进行判重，如果重复就不需要参加调度，直接舍弃就好了，不然就是白白浪费资源。
picklecompat.py
"""A pickle wrapper module with protocol=-1 by default."""
try:
import cPickle as pickle # PY2
except ImportError:
import pickle
def loads(s):
return pickle.loads(s)
def dumps(obj):
return pickle.dumps(obj, protocol=-1)
这里实现了loads和dumps两个函数，其实就是实现了一个serializer，因为redis数据库不能存储复杂对象（value部分只能是字符串，字符串列表，字符串集合和hash，key部分只能是字符串），所以我们存啥都要先串行化成文本才行。这里使用的就是python的pickle模块，一个兼容py2和py3的串行化工具。这个serializer主要用于一会的scheduler存reuqest对象，至于为什么不实用json格式，我也不是很懂，item pipeline的串行化默认用的就是json。
pipeline.py
from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
from scrapy.utils.serialize import ScrapyJSONEncoder
from twisted.internet.threads import deferToThread
from . import connection
default_serialize = ScrapyJSONEncoder().encode
class RedisPipeline(object):
"""Pushes serialized item into a redis list/queue"""
def __init__(self, server,
key='%(spider)s:items',
serialize_func=default_serialize):
self.server = server
self.key = key
self.serialize = serialize_func
@classmethod
def from_settings(cls, settings):
params = {
'server': connection.from_settings(settings),
}
if settings.get('REDIS_ITEMS_KEY'):
params['key'] = settings['REDIS_ITEMS_KEY']
if settings.get('REDIS_ITEMS_SERIALIZER'):
params['serialize_func'] = load_object(
settings['REDIS_ITEMS_SERIALIZER']
)
return cls(**params)
@classmethod
def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings)
def process_item(self, item, spider):
return deferToThread(self._process_item, item, spider)
def _process_item(self, item, spider):
key = self.item_key(item, spider)
data = self.serialize(item)
self.server.rpush(key, data)
return item
def item_key(self, item, spider):
"""Returns redis key based on given spider.
Override this function to use a different key depending on the item
and/or spider.
"""
return self.key % {'spider': spider.name}pipeline文件实现了一个item pipieline类，和scrapy的item pipeline是同一个对象，通过从settings中拿到我们配置的REDIS_ITEMS_KEY作为key，把item串行化之后存入redis数据库对应的value中（这个value可以看出出是个list，我们的每个item是这个list中的一个结点），这个pipeline把提取出的item存起来，主要是为了方便我们延后处理数据。
queue.py
from scrapy.utils.reqser import request_to_dict, request_from_dict
from . import picklecompat
class Base(object):
"""Per-spider queue/stack base class"""
def __init__(self, server, spider, key, serializer=None):
"""Initialize per-spider redis queue.
Parameters:
server -- redis connection
spider -- spider instance
key -- key for this queue (e.g. "%(spider)s:queue")
"""
if serializer is None:
# Backward compatibility.
# TODO: deprecate pickle.
serializer = picklecompat
if not hasattr(serializer, 'loads'):
raise TypeError("serializer does not implement 'loads' function: %r"
% serializer)
if not hasattr(serializer, 'dumps'):
raise TypeError("serializer '%s' does not implement 'dumps' function: %r"
% serializer)
self.server = server
self.spider = spider
self.key = key % {'spider': spider.name}
self.serializer = serializer
def _encode_request(self, request):
"""Encode a request object"""
obj = request_to_dict(request, self.spider)
return self.serializer.dumps(obj)
def _decode_request(self, encoded_request):
"""Decode an request previously encoded"""
obj = self.serializer.loads(encoded_request)
return request_from_dict(obj, self.spider)
def __len__(self):
"""Return the length of the queue"""
raise NotImplementedError
def push(self, request):
"""Push a request"""
raise NotImplementedError
def pop(self, timeout=0):
"""Pop a request"""
raise NotImplementedError
def clear(self):
"""Clear queue/stack"""
self.server.delete(self.key)
class SpiderQueue(Base):
"""Per-spider FIFO queue"""
def __len__(self):
"""Return the length of the queue"""
return self.server.llen(self.key)
def push(self, request):
"""Push a request"""
self.server.lpush(self.key, self._encode_request(request))
def pop(self, timeout=0):
"""Pop a request"""
if timeout > 0:
data = self.server.brpop(self.key, timeout)
if isinstance(data, tuple):
data = data[1]
else:
data = self.server.rpop(self.key)
if data:
return self._decode_request(data)
class SpiderPriorityQueue(Base):
"""Per-spider priority queue abstraction using redis' sorted set"""
def __len__(self):
"""Return the length of the queue"""
return self.server.zcard(self.key)
def push(self, request):
"""Push a request"""
data = self._encode_request(request)
score = -request.priority
# We don't use zadd method as the order of arguments change depending on
# whether the class is Redis or StrictRedis, and the option of using
# kwargs only accepts strings, not bytes.
self.server.execute_command('ZADD', self.key, score, data)
def pop(self, timeout=0):
"""
Pop a request
timeout not support in this queue class
"""
# use atomic range/remove using multi/exec
pipe = self.server.pipeline()
pipe.multi()
pipe.zrange(self.key, 0, 0).zremrangebyrank(self.key, 0, 0)
results, count = pipe.execute()
if results:
return self._decode_request(results[0])
class SpiderStack(Base):
"""Per-spider stack"""
def __len__(self):
"""Return the length of the stack"""
return self.server.llen(self.key)
def push(self, request):
"""Push a request"""
self.server.lpush(self.key, self._encode_request(request))
def pop(self, timeout=0):
"""Pop a request"""
if timeout > 0:
data = self.server.blpop(self.key, timeout)
if isinstance(data, tuple):
data = data[1]
else:
data = self.server.lpop(self.key)
if data:
return self._decode_request(data)
__all__ = ['SpiderQueue', 'SpiderPriorityQueue', 'SpiderStack']
该文件实现了几个容器类，可以看这些容器和redis交互频繁，同时使用了我们上边picklecompat中定义的serializer。这个文件实现的几个容器大体相同，只不过一个是队列，一个是栈，一个是优先级队列，这三个容器到时候会被scheduler对象实例化，来实现request的调度。比如我们使用SpiderQueue最为调度队列的类型，到时候request的调度方法就是先进先出，而实用SpiderStack就是先进后出了。
我们可以仔细看看SpiderQueue的实现，他的push函数就和其他容器的一样，只不过push进去的request请求先被scrapy的接口request_to_dict变成了一个dict对象（因为request对象实在是比较复杂，有方法有属性不好串行化），之后使用picklecompat中的serializer串行化为字符串，然后使用一个特定的key存入redis中（该key在同一种spider中是相同的）。而调用pop时，其实就是从redis用那个特定的key去读其值（一个list），从list中读取最早进去的那个，于是就先进先出了。
这些容器类都会作为scheduler调度request的容器，scheduler在每个主机上都会实例化一个，并且和spider一一对应，所以分布式运行时会有一个spider的多个实例和一个scheduler的多个实例存在于不同的主机上，但是，因为scheduler都是用相同的容器，而这些容器都连接同一个redis服务器，又都使用spider名加queue来作为key读写数据，所以不同主机上的不同爬虫实例公用一个request调度池，实现了分布式爬虫之间的统一调度。
scheduler.py
import importlib
import six
from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
from . import connection
# TODO: add SCRAPY_JOB support.
class Scheduler(object):
"""Redis-based scheduler"""
def __init__(self, server,
persist=False,
flush_on_start=False,
queue_key='%(spider)s:requests',
queue_cls='scrapy_redis.queue.SpiderPriorityQueue',
dupefilter_key='%(spider)s:dupefilter',
dupefilter_cls='scrapy_redis.dupefilter.RFPDupeFilter',
idle_before_close=0,
serializer=None):
"""Initialize scheduler.
Parameters
----------
server : Redis
The redis server instance.
persist : bool
Whether to flush requests when closing. Default is False.
flush_on_start : bool
Whether to flush requests on start. Default is False.
queue_key : str
Requests queue key.
queue_cls : str
Importable path to the queue class.
dupefilter_key : str
Duplicates filter key.
dupefilter_cls : str
Importable path to the dupefilter class.
idle_before_close : int
Timeout before giving up.
"""
if idle_before_close < 0:
raise TypeError("idle_before_close cannot be negative")
self.server = server
self.persist = persist
self.flush_on_start = flush_on_start
self.queue_key = queue_key
self.queue_cls = queue_cls
self.dupefilter_cls = dupefilter_cls
self.dupefilter_key = dupefilter_key
self.idle_before_close = idle_before_close
self.serializer = serializer
self.stats = None
def __len__(self):
return len(self.queue)
@classmethod
def from_settings(cls, settings):
kwargs = {
'persist': settings.getbool('SCHEDULER_PERSIST'),
'flush_on_start': settings.getbool('SCHEDULER_FLUSH_ON_START'),
'idle_before_close': settings.getint('SCHEDULER_IDLE_BEFORE_CLOSE'),
}
# If these values are missing, it means we want to use the defaults.
optional = {
# TODO: Use custom prefixes for this settings to note that are
# specific to scrapy-redis.
'queue_key': 'SCHEDULER_QUEUE_KEY',
'queue_cls': 'SCHEDULER_QUEUE_CLASS',
'dupefilter_key': 'SCHEDULER_DUPEFILTER_KEY',
# We use the default setting name to keep compatibility.
'dupefilter_cls': 'DUPEFILTER_CLASS',
'serializer': 'SCHEDULER_SERIALIZER',
}
for name, setting_name in optional.items():
val = settings.get(setting_name)
if val:
kwargs[name] = val
# Support serializer as a path to a module.
if isinstance(kwargs.get('serializer'), six.string_types):
kwargs['serializer'] = importlib.import_module(kwargs['serializer'])
server = connection.from_settings(settings)
# Ensure the connection is working.
server.ping()
return cls(server=server, **kwargs)
@classmethod
def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
instance = cls.from_settings(crawler.settings)
# FIXME: for now, stats are only supported from this constructor
instance.stats = crawler.stats
return instance
def open(self, spider):
self.spider = spider
try:
self.queue = load_object(self.queue_cls)(
server=self.server,
spider=spider,
key=self.queue_key % {'spider': spider.name},
serializer=self.serializer,
)
except TypeError as e:
raise ValueError("Failed to instantiate queue class '%s': %s",
self.queue_cls, e)
try:
self.df = load_object(self.dupefilter_cls)(
server=self.server,
key=self.dupefilter_key % {'spider': spider.name},
debug=spider.settings.getbool('DUPEFILTER_DEBUG'),
)
except TypeError as e:
raise ValueError("Failed to instantiate dupefilter class '%s': %s",
self.dupefilter_cls, e)
if self.flush_on_start:
self.flush()
# notice if there are requests already in the queue to resume the crawl
if len(self.queue):
spider.log("Resuming crawl (%d requests scheduled)" % len(self.queue))
def close(self, reason):
if not self.persist:
self.flush()
def flush(self):
self.df.clear()
self.queue.clear()
def enqueue_request(self, request):
if not request.dont_filter and self.df.request_seen(request):
self.df.log(request, self.spider)
return False
if self.stats:
self.stats.inc_value('scheduler/enqueued/redis', spider=self.spider)
self.queue.push(request)
return True
def next_request(self):
block_pop_timeout = self.idle_before_close
request = self.queue.pop(block_pop_timeout)
if request and self.stats:
self.stats.inc_value('scheduler/dequeued/redis', spider=self.spider)
return request
def has_pending_requests(self):
return len(self) > 0
这个文件重写了scheduler类，用来代替scrapy.core.scheduler的原有调度器。其实对原有调度器的逻辑没有很大的改变，主要是使用了redis作为数据存储的媒介，以达到各个爬虫之间的统一调度。
scheduler负责调度各个spider的request请求，scheduler初始化时，通过settings文件读取queue和dupefilters的类型（一般就用上边默认的），配置queue和dupefilters使用的key（一般就是spider name加上queue或者dupefilters，这样对于同一种spider的不同实例，就会使用相同的数据块了）。每当一个request要被调度时，enqueue_request被调用，scheduler使用dupefilters来判断这个url是否重复，如果不重复，就添加到queue的容器中（先进先出，先进后出和优先级都可以，可以在settings中配置）。当调度完成时，next_request被调用，scheduler就通过queue容器的接口，取出一个request，把他发送给相应的spider，让spider进行爬取工作。
同时我们可以看到，如果setting文件中配置了SCHEDULER_PERSIST为True，那么在爬虫关闭的时候scheduler会调用自己的flush函数把redis数据库中的判重和调度池全部清空，使得我们的爬取进度完全丢失（但是item没有丢失，item数据在另一个键中储存）。如果设置SCHEDULER_PERSIST为False，爬虫关闭后，判重池和调度池仍然存在于redis数据库中，则我们再次开启爬虫时，可以接着上一次的进度继续爬取。
spider.py
from scrapy import signals
from scrapy.exceptions import DontCloseSpider
from scrapy.spiders import Spider, CrawlSpider
from . import connection
class RedisMixin(object):
"""Mixin class to implement reading urls from a redis queue."""
redis_key = None # If empty, uses default '<spider>:start_urls'.
# Fetch this amount of start urls when idle.
redis_batch_size = 100
# Redis client instance.
server = None
def start_requests(self):
"""Returns a batch of start requests from redis."""
return self.next_requests()
def setup_redis(self, crawler=None):
"""Setup redis connection and idle signal.
This should be called after the spider has set its crawler object.
"""
if self.server is not None:
return
if crawler is None:
# We allow optional crawler argument to keep backwrads
# compatibility.
# XXX: Raise a deprecation warning.
assert self.crawler, "crawler not set"
crawler = self.crawler
if not self.redis_key:
self.redis_key = '%s:start_urls' % self.name
self.log("Reading URLs from redis key '%s'" % self.redis_key)
self.redis_batch_size = self.settings.getint(
'REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE',
self.redis_batch_size,
)
self.server = connection.from_settings(crawler.settings)
# The idle signal is called when the spider has no requests left,
# that's when we will schedule new requests from redis queue
crawler.signals.connect(self.spider_idle, signal=signals.spider_idle)
def next_requests(self):
"""Returns a request to be scheduled or none."""
use_set = self.settings.getbool('REDIS_START_URLS_AS_SET')
fetch_one = self.server.spop if use_set else self.server.lpop
# XXX: Do we need to use a timeout here?
found = 0
while found < self.redis_batch_size:
data = fetch_one(self.redis_key)
if not data:
# Queue empty.
break
yield self.make_request_from_data(data)
found += 1
if found:
self.logger.debug("Read %s requests from '%s'", found, self.redis_key)
def make_request_from_data(self, data):
# By default, data is an URL.
if '://' in data:
return self.make_requests_from_url(data)
else:
self.logger.error("Unexpected URL from '%s': %r", self.redis_key, data)
def schedule_next_requests(self):
"""Schedules a request if available"""
for req in self.next_requests():
self.crawler.engine.crawl(req, spider=self)
def spider_idle(self):
"""Schedules a request if available, otherwise waits."""
# XXX: Handle a sentinel to close the spider.
self.schedule_next_requests()
raise DontCloseSpider
class RedisSpider(RedisMixin, Spider):
"""Spider that reads urls from redis queue when idle."""
@classmethod
def from_crawler(self, crawler):
obj = super(RedisSpider, self).from_crawler(crawler)
obj.setup_redis(crawler)
return obj
class RedisCrawlSpider(RedisMixin, CrawlSpider):
"""Spider that reads urls from redis queue when idle."""
@classmethod
def from_crawler(self, crawler):
obj = super(RedisCrawlSpider, self).from_crawler(crawler)
obj.setup_redis(crawler)
return objspider的改动也不是很大，主要是通过connect接口，给spider绑定了spider_idle信号，spider初始化时，通过setup_redis函数初始化好和redis的连接，之后通过next_requests函数从redis中取出strat url，使用的key是settings中REDIS_START_URLS_AS_SET定义的（注意了这里的初始化url池和我们上边的queue的url池不是一个东西，queue的池是用于调度的，初始化url池是存放入口url的，他们都存在redis中，但是使用不同的key来区分，就当成是不同的表吧），spider使用少量的start url，可以发展出很多新的url，这些url会进入scheduler进行判重和调度。直到spider跑到调度池内没有url的时候，会触发spider_idle信号，从而触发spider的next_requests函数，再次从redis的start url池中读取一些url。
最后总结一下scrapy-redis的总体思路：这个工程通过重写scheduler和spider类，实现了调度、spider启动和redis的交互。实现新的dupefilter和queue类，达到了判重和调度容器和redis的交互，因为每个主机上的爬虫进程都访问同一个redis数据库，所以调度和判重都统一进行统一管理，达到了分布式爬虫的目的。
当spider被初始化时，同时会初始化一个对应的scheduler对象，这个调度器对象通过读取settings，配置好自己的调度容器queue和判重工具dupefilter。每当一个spider产出一个request的时候，scrapy内核会把这个reuqest递交给这个spider对应的scheduler对象进行调度，scheduler对象通过访问redis对request进行判重，如果不重复就把他添加进redis中的调度池。当调度条件满足时，scheduler对象就从redis的调度池中取出一个request发送给spider，让他爬取。当spider爬取的所有暂时可用url之后，scheduler发现这个spider对应的redis的调度池空了，于是触发信号spider_idle，spider收到这个信号之后，直接连接redis读取strart url池，拿去新的一批url入口，然后再次重复上边的工作。