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The given command is a Scrapy command used to generate a spider.

Scrapy is a Python framework for web scraping and building web crawlers. A spider is the main component of a Scrapy project, responsible for defining how to crawl a website, extracting data from it, and storing the scraped information.

The command is structured as follows:

• scrapy: The command-line tool used to execute Scrapy commands.
• genspider: The specific command that tells Scrapy to generate a spider.
• ${spider_name}: This is a placeholder representing the desired name of the spider you want to generate. You need to replace ${spider_name} with your preferred name when running the command.
• ${website_domain}: This is another placeholder representing the domain or URL of the website you want to crawl. Again, you need to replace ${website_domain} with the actual domain or URL when running the command.

So, when you run the command, Scrapy will generate a spider file with the provided ${spider_name} as the name and configure it to crawl the specified ${website_domain}. The spider file will be created with basic structure and you can modify it later to define the crawling and scraping logic according to your requirements.