# Installation guide

## Installing Scrapy

Note

Check Platform specific installation notes first.

The installation steps assume that you have the following things installed:

- Python 2.7
- pip and setuptools Python packages. Nowadays pip requires and installs setuptools if not installed.
- lxml. Most Linux distributions ships prepackaged versions of lxml. Otherwise refer to http://lxml.de/installation.html
- OpenSSL. This comes preinstalled in all operating systems, except Windows where the Python installer ships it bundled.

You can install Scrapy using pip (which is the canonical way to install Python packages).

To install using pip:

    pip install Scrapy

## Platform specific installation notes

### Windows

- Install Python 2.7 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

  You need to adjust `PATH` environment variable to include paths to the Python executable and additional scripts. The following paths need to be added to `PATH`:

      C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts\;

  To update the `PATH` open a Command prompt and run:

      c:\python27\python.exe c:\python27\tools\scripts\win_add2path.py

  Close the command prompt window and reopen it so changes take effect, run the following command and check it shows the expected Python version:

      python --version

- Install pywin32 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

  Be sure you download the architecture (win32 or amd64) that matches your system

- Install pip from https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html

  Now open a Command prompt to check `pip` is installed correctly:

      pip --version

- At this point Python 2.7 and `pip` package manager must be working, let’s install Scrapy:

      pip install Scrapy

### Ubuntu 9.10 or above

Don’t use the `python-scrapy` package provided by Ubuntu, they are typically too old and slow to catch up with latest Scrapy.

Instead, use the official Ubuntu Packages, which already solve all dependencies for you and are continuously updated with the latest bug fixes.

### Archlinux

You can follow the generic instructions or install Scrapy from AUR Scrapy package:

    yaourt -S scrapy