Scrapy spider not found error

Question

This is Windows 7 with python 2.7

I have a scrapy project in a directory called caps (this is where scrapy.cfg is)

My spider is located in caps\\caps\\spiders\\c

Answer 1

If you are following the tutorial from https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html

Then do something like:

$ sudo apt install python-pip
$ pip install Scrapy
(logout, login)
$ cd
$ scrapy startproject tutorial
$ vi ~/tutorial/tutorial/spiders/quotes_spider.py
$ cd ~/tutorial/tutorial
$ scrapy crawl quotes

The error happens if you try to create the spiders directory yourself under ~/tutorial