Scrapy installed, but won't recognized in the command line

Question

I installed Scrapy in my python 2.7 environment in windows 7 but when I trying to start a new Scrapy project using scrapy startproject newProject the command prompt show this massage

'scrapy' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Note:

• I also have python 3.5 but that do not have scrapy
• This question is not duplicate of this

Solution 1

See the official documentation.

• Set environment variable
• Install pywin32

Solution 2

Scrapy should be in your environment variables. You can check if it's there with the following in windows:

echo %PATH% # To print only the path
set # For all 

or

printenv # In linux

Make should scrapy is in your path and if it's not, add it to your path and it should (probably) resolve your problem. I said probably, since it might be caused by other issues you have not mentioned.

Solution 3

If you are using Anaconda or Miniconda, try updating the conda command as follows:

conda update -n base -c defaults conda

It worked for me.

Solution 4

If updating conda doesn't bring the expected result, try to install scrapy in the current environment with pip install scrapy.

You should see a "successfully installed" message, and some info about the path, like this:

> "WARNING: The script scrapy.exe is installed in
> 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts'
> which is not on PATH"

If you try running it again...

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts\scrapy

... you will see that it works. You should update/add the path info, and the shell knows how to fix the rest. I have just tried this on my computer using a new installation of Python & WSL2.

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