Scrapy: how to rename project

I have created a new project with this command : scrapy startproject first_scrapy

But now i want to change this project name to “web_crawler” . After i tried to change project name , i can not start scrapy command . I got this error :

  File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
  "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\scrapy.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\cmdline.py", line 108, in execute
    settings = get_project_settings()
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\project.py", line 68, in get_project_settings
    settings.setmodule(settings_module_path, priority='project')
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\settings\__init__.py", line 282, in setmodule
    module = import_module(module)
  File "c:\python27\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  ImportError: No module named first_scrapy.settings

So how can i rename old project ?

[oyeyipo]

i had the same problem recently too.

the solution is pretty simple. when you change your file name scrapy setting settings.py has no idea and still refer to the root project module using the previous file name. just change the name to be consistent with your new file name in your settings.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Scrapy settings for tutorial project
#
# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or
# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:
#
#     http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html
#     http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html
#     http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html

BOT_NAME = 'tutorial'

SPIDER_MODULES = ['tutorial.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'tutorial.spiders'

# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent
# USER_AGENT = 'tutorial (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'

# Obey robots.txt rules
ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True

change the old name to the new file name in places where the old filename is being referred to.

hope this helps you.

[astrung]

i have deleted all .pyc file and still no results