Q:

scrapy: how to not print everything to screen while scraping

When I am scraping something I see an output to screen of everything that scrapy is pulling. Is there a way to not show this and instead just show some kind of status that the spider is running?

A:

I think you mean the logs, maybe it is setup as DEBUG as default, so to just show important scrapy information I think you should set it to INFO, just go to settings.py and add:
LOG_LEVEL = 'INFO'

