In this tutorial, we will introduce how to install scrapy library with conda command on windows, there are some notices we should concern, otherwise, you may fail to install it.
Backgroud
Scrapy can run on python 2.7 and python 3.4 above, you can both install python 2.7 and python 3.x on your windows.
Install and Use Both Python 2 and Python 3 in Windows with Anaconda – Python Tutorial
If you only install anaconda with python 2.x or 3.x, you can use conda command to install directly.
Install scrapy using conda command
conda install -c conda-forge scrapy
However, you may get this CondaError: Cannot link a source that does not exist. ***\Scripts\conda.exe when you are installing and fail to install.
To fix this error, you can view:
Fix CondaError: Cannot link a source that does not exist. ***Scriptsconda.exe – Python Tutorial
After fixing this error, you can install again.
However, you will find scrapy only be installed based on anaconda python, we can not use it on anaconda environment python 2.7 or 3.5.
In anaconda python 2.7 environment.
In anaconda python 3.5 enviroment.
How to use scrapy in anaconda python environment? For example python 3.5.
Install scrapy in anaconda environment python 3.5
activate py3
Then
pip install Scrapy
You can get:
As to anaconda enviroment python 2.7, you can do as above.