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 pr

Answer 1

See the official documentation.

• Set environment variable
• Install pywin32

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

same problem here and check up different installation guide link and run below in anaconda prompt:

conda update scrapy

now working perfectly with scrapy startproject cmd