How to install and use Scrapy within a TERMINAL opended within Visual Sudio Code under Windows 10?

Question

within the TERMINAL window having the prompt PS C:\Rolf\py_scripts I have run

pip install scrapy

I got the message Successfully installed Automat-20.2.0 PyDispatcher-2.0.5 ... therefore I presume, that the installion was succesfull but

scrapy startproject sainsburys

fails with the message "command scrapy is unknown."

I've seen that there is a "scrapy.exe" somewhere on the harddisk of my computer I think the directory where Scrapy resides is not included in PATH.

My question: How do I have to install scrapy not only that the modules can be used with "import" in python but also the scrapy command can be used in a powershell window opende withon VSCode?

For sake of completeness: I do not need (and would prefer not to use) virtual environments

Answer 1

You can use pip install -t floderPath scrapy #floderPath is your python package path to install scrapy to your python package.

Of course, you can use pip show scrapy to see the location of scrapy and add it to PATH environment variable.