Revision as of 17:19, 12 May 2012

Installation

You'll need to install libxml2 and libxslt to use Scrapy. Installation instructions can be found here: Libxml and libxslt

Scrapy can be installed by downloading the tarball, unzipping it, and doing the usual Python build/install steps:

$ python setup.py build

$ python setup.py install

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 ==Prerequisites==
-You'll need libxml2 to use Scrapy. I installed libxml2 using Fink, which I then made accessible to my Python installation by adding it to my <code>$PYTHONPATH</code> variable in my <code>.profile</code> file:
+You'll need to install libxml2 and libxslt to use Scrapy. Installation instructions can be found here: [[Libxml and libxslt]]
-<pre>
-export PYTHONPATH="/fink/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH"
-</pre>
 ==Build/Install==