...Scraped items gets pushed into a redis queued meaning that you can start as many as needed post-processing processes sharing the items queue. Scheduler + Duplication Filter, Item Pipeline, Base Spiders. Default requests serializer is pickle, but it can be changed to any module with loads and dumps functions. Note that pickle is not compatible between python versions. Version 0.3 changed the requests serialization from marshal to cPickle, therefore persisted requests using version 0.2 will not able to work on 0.3. The class scrapy_redis.spiders.RedisSpider enables a spider to read the urls from redis. The urls in the redis queue will be processed one after another, if the first request yields more requests, the spider will process those requests before fetching another url from redis.