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Jiawei Hu
9,740 Pointsbash: scrapy: command not found
By writing "scrapy startproject AraneaSpider" the system says:
bash: scrapy: command not found
what should I do?
2 Answers
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsIt sounds like you have not have the "scrapy" application on your system. You probably need to get the latest version of scrapy and install it.
If you're sure you do have it already, it may be installed in a location that isn't part of your execution path (the "PATH" environment variable). In that case, you may only need to expand your PATH to include it.
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 PointsWhat Steven Parker said, but it could also be that you installed it in a virtual env which mean you would have to activate that env
Jiawei Hu
9,740 PointsJiawei Hu
9,740 PointsThank you for the response, the version of Scrapy that I have is 1.6 and I can find it in
External Libraries/<Python3.6>/Site-packages
Not sure if that's the right place for it to be.