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The Crab Nebula is used by many instruments as a calibration source, inparticular at high energy, where it is one of the brightest celestial object.The spectrometer INTEGRAL SPI (20 keV - 8 MeV), in operation since October2002, offers a large dataset dedicated to this source, with regular campaignsplanned twice per year. We have analyzed the available data to quantify thesource behavior on a long term scale and examine the stability level ontimescales from hour to years. As a result, the source flux variability appearsto be contained within less than +/- 5% around a ~ 20 yr mean value, for broadbands covering the 20 keV - 400 keV energy domain, above which statistic limitsany firm conclusion. In term of spectral shape, the Band model provides a gooddescription of the observed emission between 20 keV and 2.2 MeV. The averagedspectrum best fit parameters correspond to a low energy slope of 1.99 +/- 0.01,a high energy slope of -2.32 +/- 0.02 and a characteristic energy E c of 531+/- 50 keV to describe the curvature joining both power laws. The spectralparameters have then been determined on the revolution timescale (~ 1 to 2days) and their steadiness confirms the source emission stability.  As a complementary result, this study demonstrates that the SPI instrumentefficiency remains within 5% of its initial value, after 17 years of operation.

2003-2019 Monitoring of the Crab emission through INTEGRAL SPI, or vice versa