I am trying to install scrapy using pip install Scrapy. but i am getting error as Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required

Question

It also gives an error " failed building wheel for twisted". I already have higher version microsoft visual c++ 14.0. i even tried installing twisted, but i get same error for installing Twisted.

Error while running pip install Scrapy

Answer 1

Scrapy documentation is recommending using Anaconda (or Miniconda) to install Scrapy on Windows ( link ):

Though it's possible to install Scrapy on Windows using pip, we recommend you to install Anaconda or Miniconda and use the package from the conda-forge channel, which will avoid most installation issues.

Anaconda is a Python software distribution with data science and machine learning in mind, whereas Miniconda is trimmed-down version of Anaconda with easy way to install additional packages. For your use case I recommend Miniconda.

If you don't want to use Miniconda, maybe let's focus on installing Twisted first. It has recommendations for installing on Windows ( link ):

If you are installing on Windows, pip install Twisted[windows_platform] will install the Windows-specific requirements.

Maybe you could try installing Twisted first and then try to install Scrapy?