Having an option to define an Items output file in the `scrapy parse` commnad line

I use scrapy parse command to check the Items output for given URL, and I use it a lot.

Sometimes, I need to latter explore the Items extracted by scrapy parse, e.g . to check that something I want to fix was fixed for that specific URL without having to touch the source code.

Proposed solution:

Add a new parameter -o or --output in the parse command line. Allowing the client to set a desired output file for the items.

I could also | the result of scrapy parse, filter out want I want and create a json file out of it, but would be much easier if I could simple write scrapy parse {url} --callback=fixed_function -o items.json

[elacuesta]

@AKSHAYSHARMAJS you should be able to install Scrapy in “development mode” by executing pip install -e .

[raphapassini]

Hey @adityaa30 this is a long waited one, thanks for working on this 💃