# Scrapy Cloud scripts

In addition to [Scrapy spiders](spiders.md#sc-spiders), you can include
standalone Python scripts in your Scrapy project and run them on Scrapy Cloud.

Scrapy Cloud scripts need to be declared under `scripts` in your `setup.py`
file:

```python
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name="myproject",
    version="1.0",
    packages=find_packages(),
    scripts=["bin/hello.py"],
    entry_points={"scrapy": ["settings = myproject.settings"]},
)
```

When [starting a job](jobs/index.md#jobs), you can select a script instead of a spider.
Scripts are listed with their file name, prefixed with `py:`; for example,
`py:hello.py` for the script in the example above.

To access your Scrapy project settings from a script, including those defined
in Scrapy Cloud, use the `sh_scrapy.utils.get_project_settings` function:

```python
from sh_scrapy.utils import get_project_settings

settings = get_project_settings()
```

> [!NOTE]
> This function was introduced in [scrapinghub-entrypoint-scrapy](https://github.com/scrapinghub/scrapinghub-entrypoint-scrapy) 0.12.
> If you cannot import it, make sure you are using a [modern Scrapy
> stack](deployment.md#stacks), or add `scrapinghub-entrypoint-scrapy>=0.12` to your
> [requirements](deployment.md#sc-requirements).