scrapy command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

scrapy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scrapy: command not found

Solutions to scrapy: command not found

How To Fix scrapy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scrapy is provided by python3-scrapy package.

python3-scrapy is:

Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

This package provides the scrapy module for Python 3.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-scrapy

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-scrapy.

sudo apt -y install python3-scrapy

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-scrapy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix scrapy command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.