I just tried installing and running scrapy on my PC at work, which runs Windows XP.
If I run scrapy startproject myproject I will get the following error:
ImportError: No module named w3lib.html
Wining: It’s really troublesome running Python / Scrapy on windows XP. On linux I just run pip install Scrapy and it’s ok lol.
It appears they forgot to list w3lib and simplejson. The latter is only required for Python versions before 2.6. Here’s an installer for Distribute, in case you don’t have easy_install and pip. Then you can use one of the latter to get the remaining dependencies.