'scrapy' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Hi there,

I’ve installed Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7 (32-bit), easyinstall and pip, as well as Scrapy using pip.

When I open a command prompt and issue “scrapy” I am met with this error:

'scrapy' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I’ve checked my %PATH% which has both the Python27 directory and the Python27 Scripts directory which is where the scrapy “binary” resides.

C:\>echo %PATH%
C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32\wbem;C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C
:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem;C:\usr\bin;c:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server
\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program File
s\Git\bin;C:\Program Files\Nmap;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Python27;C:\Pyt
hon27\Scripts;

This is not the first instance of this issue I’ve seen:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4988297/trying-to-get-scrapy-into-a-project-to-run-crawl-command
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scrapy-users/NQGltXNNt1I
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEK2kmmvIdw

Yes the scrapy file exists:

C:\Python27\Scripts>dir scrapy
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is ACF1-762D

 Directory of C:\Python27\Scripts

31/07/2014  13:58                72 scrapy
               1 File(s)             72 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   8,137,617,408 bytes free

Yes it has contents:

C:\Python27\Scripts>type scrapy
#!C:\Python27\python.exe

from scrapy.cmdline import execute
execute()

Yes I’m using a normal windows command line prompt:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Yes I’ve rebooted.

I can’t put my finger on what I’m missing here…

[dangra]

You detailed the problem pretty well, but you must know Github issues are used for bug or feature discussions that directly affect Scrapy, not for problems in local setups. You will get better support at the forums

[jpswade]

If it doesn’t work out of the box in an environment it’s designed to run in, then I would say that’s a bug, hence the report.