Following the Scrapy discussion #6639, Scrapy 2.13 introduced new async runners - AsyncCrawlerRunner and AsyncCrawlerProcess (see docs). These classes provide native coroutine-based APIs for running Scrapy projects in asynchronous contexts.

We can adopt these new runners in place of our custom implementations:

• apify-sdk-python/src/apify/scrapy/_actor_runner.py
• actor-templates/python-scrapy/src/main.py

Utilizing the built-in Scrapy async runners should simplify our Apify-Scrapy integration, reduce maintenance overhead, and ensure compatibility with future Scrapy releases.