cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory when installing Scrapy

Question

I\'m trying to install Scrapy framework. After installing all dependent libraries and start installing setup.py file, I get this error message: \"cl.exe\' failed: No such fi

Answer 1

As it is said in the scrapy documentation, it is recommended to install scrapy on Windows with Anaconda. It's a virtualenv, so it will make a clean install of scrapy on your system, and all the dependencies will be automatically installed.

Once Anaconda is installed you enter this cmd in your console: conda install -c conda-forge scrapy and you should be fine.

Hope this helps.