Cannot Set Up a Scrapy Project

Question

I type this into the terminal:

$ scrapy startproject tutorial

I cannot get it to start a new scrapy project, and I keep installing all the

Answer 1

Looks like you are using Anaconda - I had the same problem and this fixed it (tested on OS X 10.9 and 10.10).

First pip uninstall scrapy if you have it installed.

Use conda to install cryptography:

conda install cryptography

Set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/anaconda/lib

Then install scrapy again

pip install scrapy