settings.py

# Scrapy settings for reddit_scraper project
BOT_NAME = 'reddit_scraper'

SPIDER_MODULES = ['reddit_scraper.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'reddit_scraper.spiders'

# Obey robots.txt rules
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True

# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32

# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3

# The download delay setting will honor only one of:
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16

# Disable cookies (enabled by default)
COOKIES_ENABLED = False

# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)
TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False

# Override the default request headers:
DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {
   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
   'Accept-Language': 'en',
}

# Enable or disable spider middlewares
SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
   'reddit_scraper.middlewares.RedditScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,
}

# Enable or disable downloader middlewares
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
   'reddit_scraper.middlewares.RedditScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,
}

# Enable or disable extensions
EXTENSIONS = {
    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,
}

# Configure item pipelines
ITEM_PIPELINES = {
   'reddit_scraper.pipelines.RedditScraperPipeline': 300,
}

# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)
AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True
AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5
AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60
AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0
AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False

# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:
AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False

# HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True
# HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0
# HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'
# HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []
# HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'

# OAuth 2.0 settings
OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID = 'your_client_id'
OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET = 'your_client_secret'
OAUTH2_REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:8000/oauth2/callback'

# Facebook API settings
FACEBOOK_API_VERSION = 'v10.0'
FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'your_access_token'

# Reddit API settings
REDDIT_API_VERSION = 'v1'
REDDIT_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'your_access_token'