Scrapy: Problems Installing On Clean Anaconda Environment

On a clean environment of anaconda, after running conda install -c scrapinghub scrapy which as of today install scrapy 1.1.2, on python 2.7 for some reason does not create the scra

Solution 1:

I solved the issue by installing a previous scrapy version:

conda install -c anaconda scrapy=1.1.1

beware, this does not solve other issues with scrapy and anaconda, like pyopenssl issues:

ImportError: DLL load failed: the operating system cannot run %1.