Quickstart¶

Feeds has a few commands that are described on this page.

List all available spiders:
```
$ feeds list
```
Feeds allows to crawl one or more spiders without a configuration file, e.g.:
```
$ feeds crawl indiehackers.com
```
A configuration file is supported too. Simply copy the Example configuration and adjust it. Enable the spiders you are interested in and adjust the output_path where Feeds stores the scraped Atom feeds:
```
$ cp feeds.cfg.dist feeds.cfg
$ $EDITOR feeds.cfg
$ feeds --config feeds.cfg crawl
```
Perform a cache cleanup:
```
$ feeds --config feeds.cfg cleanup
```
Point your feed reader to the generated Atom feeds and start reading. Feeds works best when run periodically in a cron job or similar job scheduler.
Run feeds --help or feeds <subcommand> --help for help and usage details.