How to Install Scrapy in 64-bit Windows 7

Notes

• Scrapy must be installed with Python 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7 (NOT 3.x)
• Python 2.7 (and 3.2) do not load the correct 32-bit compatible Windows Registry Keys

Install Procedure

1. Download the Python 2.7.2 Windows Installer from http://www.python.org/getit/
2. Go to the Search programs and files bar at the bottom of the start menu and type "regedit" and hit enter
3. Using the left pane navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python" & click on it (highlighting it in blue)
   1. With the branch selected go to File --> Export
   2. Save the file somewhere you can get to it easily
   3. Open the file in your favorite text editor
   4. Insert "\Wow6432Node" inbetween "SOFTWARE" and "\Python" on every line (an easy way to do this is to do a find and replace with "SOFTWARE" in the Find Field and "SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node" in the Replace Field
   5. Save the file
   6. Navigate to where you saved said file and double click on it to initiate a Registry Modification
4. Now download the Scrapy 0.14 Windows installer from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Scrapy
5. Double click the Scrapy Installer and everything should work fine.

References

• http://selfsolved.com/problems/setuptools-06c11-fails-to-instal/s/63 (Thanks for the comment Lathrop)
• http://readthedocs.org/docs/scrapy/en/0.14/faq.html#does-scrapy-work-with-python-3-0