Используйте BaseSpider вместо CrawlSpider, затем установите add в start_requests или start_urls []
class MySpider(BaseSpider):
name = "myspider"
def start_requests(self):
return [Request("https://www.example.com",
callback=self.parse)]
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
...