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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:24:12+00:00

I just downloaded Scrapy (web crawler) on Windows 32 and have just created a

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I just downloaded Scrapy (web crawler) on Windows 32 and have just created a new project folder using the “scrapy-ctl.py startproject dmoz” command in dos. I then proceeded to created the first spider using the command:

scrapy-ctl.py genspider myspider myspdier-domain.com

but it did not work and returns the error:

Error running: scrapy-ctl.py genspider, Cannot find project settings module in python path: scrapy_settings.

I know I have the path set right (to python26/scripts), but I am having difficulty figuring out what the problem is. I am new to both scrapy and python so there is a good possibility that I have failled to do something important.

Also, I have been using eclipse with the Pydev plugin to edit the code if that might cause some problems.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is a difference between PATH and PYTHON_PATH. Is your PYTHON_PATH set correctly? This path is where python looks to include packages / modules.

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