- Fixes issue scrapinghub#53

Support '-' and '~' in spider names.
pavelm2007 · May 20, 2014 · 38b2ebd · 38b2ebd
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diff --git a/slyd/slyd/crawlerspec.py b/slyd/slyd/crawlerspec.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def create_crawler_spec_resource(spec_manager):
     return SpecResource(spec_manager)
 
 # stick to alphanum . and _. Do not allow only .'s (so safe for FS path)
-_INVALID_SPIDER_RE = re.compile('[^A-Za-z0-9._]|^\.*$')
+_INVALID_SPIDER_RE = re.compile('[^A-Za-z0-9._\-~]|^\.*$')
 
 
 def allowed_spider_name(name):