Method _schedule

scrapy/shell.py:193–208

Send the request to the engine, wait for the result. Runs in the reactor thread.

(self, request: Request, spider: Spider | None)

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    async def _schedule(self, request: Request, spider: Spider | None) -> Response:
        """Send the request to the engine, wait for the result.

        Runs in the reactor thread.
        """
        if self._use_reactor and is_asyncio_reactor_installed():
            # set the asyncio event loop for the current thread
            event_loop_path = self.crawler.settings["ASYNCIO_EVENT_LOOP"]
            set_asyncio_event_loop(event_loop_path)
        if not self.spider:
            await self._open_spider(spider)
        assert self.crawler.engine is not None
        # send the request to the engine
        self.crawler.engine.crawl(request)
        # this will fire when the request callback runs (via the callback hijacking in _request_deferred())
        return await maybe_deferred_to_future(_request_deferred(request))

    async def _open_spider(self, spider: Spider | None) -> None:
        if spider is None: