[settings]
shell = bpython

scrapy shell <url>

scrapy shell 'http://scrapy.org' --nolog

[s] Available Scrapy objects:
[s]   crawler    <scrapy.crawler.Crawler object at 0x1e16b50>
[s]   item       {}
[s]   request    <GET http://scrapy.org >
[s]   response   <200 http://scrapy.org >
[s]   settings   <scrapy.settings.Settings object at 0x2bfd650>
[s]   spider     <Spider 'default' at 0x20c6f50>
[s] Useful shortcuts:
[s]   shelp()           Provides available objects and shortcuts with help option
[s]   fetch(req_or_url) Collects the response from the request or URL and associated 
objects will get update
[s]   view(response)    View the response for the given request

>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract_first() 
u'Scrapy | A Fast and Powerful Scraping and Web Crawling Framework'  
>> fetch("http://reddit.com") 
[s] Available Scrapy objects: 
[s]   crawler     
[s]   item       {} 
[s]   request     
[s]   response   <200 https://www.reddit.com/> 
[s]   settings    
[s]   spider      
[s] Useful shortcuts: 
[s]   shelp()           Shell help (print this help) 
[s]   fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and update local objects 
[s]   view(response)    View response in a browser  
>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract() 
[u'reddit: the front page of the internet']  
>> request = request.replace(method="POST")  
>> fetch(request) 
[s] Available Scrapy objects: 
[s]   crawler     
... 

import scrapy 

class SpiderDemo(scrapy.Spider): 
   name = "spiderdemo" 
   start_urls = [ 
      "http://mysite.com", 
      "http://mysite1.org", 
      "http://mysite2.net", 
   ]  

   def parse(self, response): 
      # You can inspect one specific response 
      if ".net" in response.url: 
         from scrapy.shell import inspect_response 
         inspect_response(response, self)

scrapy.shell.inspect_response

2016-02-08 18:15:20-0400 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200)  (referer: None) 
2016-02-08 18:15:20-0400 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200)  (referer: None) 
2016-02-08 18:15:20-0400 [scrapy] DEBUG: Crawled (200)  (referer: None) 
[s] Available Scrapy objects: 
[s]   crawler     
...  
>> response.url 
'http://mysite2.org' 

>> response.xpath('//div[@class = "val"]')

[]

>> view(response)

True