unknown command: crawl error

Question

I am a newbie to python. I am running python 2.7.3 version 32 bit on 64 bit OS. (I tried 64 bit but it didn\'t workout).

I followed the tutorial and installed scrapy on

Answer 1

You should run scrapy crawl spider_name command being in a scrapy project folder, where scrapy.cfg file resides.

From the docs:

Crawling

To put our spider to work, go to the project’s top level directory and run:

scrapy crawl dmoz