'scrapy' 安装后不被识别为内部或外部命令

Question

I am using python version 3.7. I installed the package scrapy using the command pip install scrapy which got installed along with other dependencies successfully.

I then ran the command scrapy startproject newproject , this resulted into an error that reads 'scrapy' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file .

I also ran the command scrapy on the command line, it gave the same error.

Note : when I ran the command pip list , scrapy was among the installed packages.

How can i fix this please?

Answer 1

So, I was able to solve the method using two different methods :

The first method includes the following:

1. I installed it using anaconda with the command conda install -c conda-forge scrapy , and then activated the conda environment using conda activate.
2. After running scrapy startproject newproject this time, it worked successfully.

Note : You need to have anaconda or miniconda installed for this to work successfully.

The second method includes the following:

1. I created a virtual environment using the command python -m venv venv and then activated it using the command venv\scripts\activate .
2. I ran the command pip install scrapy . I got an error here error: can't find Rust compiler , i was using the pip version: 19.0.3. So I solved the issue by upgrading the pip version by using th command pip install --upgrade pip which upgraded it to the version pip 21.1.2
3. so after running the pip install scrapy command again, it worked successfully.

Throughout the whole process I noticed that, the scrapy command didn't work without being activated in a virtual environment even though the installation worked.