Scrapy installation on OSX Lion

Question

So I\'m trying to install Scrapy on Lion and am not sure if it\'s properly installed or not.

I followed the guide here http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.

Answer 1

Well turns out it's likely a path issue.

On my Mac, I used easy_install from /usr/bin.

sudo /usr/bin/easy_install scrapy

The resulting scrapy command is then installed into /usr/local/bin/scrapy.

You might not have that directory in your path, so see if that's true with:

echo $PATH

If it isn't in there, you can temporarily add it like export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH, or modify your ~/.bash_profile to add it permanently.

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Alternatively, I typically don't use the system installed Python in Mac - I install homebrew and install a separate version of Python, and install scrapy with that version (scrapy is then installed into /usr/local/share/python/scrapy).