How to install Scrapy on Ubuntu or Debian
Scrapy is a Python-based scraping and web crawling program and is generally available as a pip package. Some Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Debian however have Scrapy in its default package repository and can be installed via apt.
Related: How to install Scrapy using pip
Ubuntu version of Scrapy is more tightly integrated with the operating system in a way that it installs to the default application path, and you don't need to install additional tools such as pip to have Scrapy installed.
However, the installed version is normally tied to the distribution version, so you won't get the latest version of Scrapy unless you also upgrade your Ubuntu or Debian version.
Scrapy can be installed on Ubuntu and Debian using apt at the terminal.
Steps to install Scrapy on Ubuntu or Debian:
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Launch terminal application.
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Update apt's package list from repository.
$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for user: Hit:1 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Get:2 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [107 kB] Get:3 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB] Get:4 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB] Fetched 312 kB in 7s (47.5 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date.
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Install python3-scrapy package using apt.
$ sudo apt install --assume-yes python3-scrapy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: ipython3 libimagequant0 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 libmysqlclient21 libtiff5 libwebp6 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 mysql-common python3-backcall python3-boto python3-bs4 python3-cssselect python3-decorator python3-html5lib python3-ipython python3-ipython-genutils python3-jedi python3-libxml2 python3-lxml python3-mysqldb python3-olefile python3-parsel python3-parso python3-pexpect python3-pickleshare python3-pil python3-prompt-toolkit python3-ptyprocess python3-pydispatch python3-pygments python3-queuelib python3-soupsieve python3-traitlets python3-w3lib python3-wcwidth python3-webencodings Suggested packages: liblcms2-utils python3-genshi python-ipython-doc python3-lxml-dbg python-lxml-doc default-mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server python3-mysqldb-dbg python-pexpect-doc python-pil-doc python3-pil-dbg python-pydispatch-doc python-pygments-doc ttf-bitstream-vera python-scrapy-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: ipython3 libimagequant0 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 libmysqlclient21 libtiff5 libwebp6 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 mysql-common python3-backcall python3-boto python3-bs4 python3-cssselect python3-decorator python3-html5lib python3-ipython python3-ipython-genutils python3-jedi python3-libxml2 python3-lxml python3-mysqldb python3-olefile python3-parsel python3-parso python3-pexpect python3-pickleshare python3-pil python3-prompt-toolkit python3-ptyprocess python3-pydispatch python3-pygments python3-queuelib python3-scrapy python3-soupsieve python3-traitlets python3-w3lib python3-wcwidth python3-webencodings 0 upgraded, 41 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7,080 kB of archives. After this operation, 37.6 MB of additional disk space will be used. ##### snipped
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Start using Scrapy by running scrapy command at the terminal.
$ scrapy Scrapy 1.7.3 - no active project Usage: scrapy <command> [options] [args] Available commands: bench Run quick benchmark test fetch Fetch a URL using the Scrapy downloader genspider Generate new spider using pre-defined templates runspider Run a self-contained spider (without creating a project) settings Get settings values shell Interactive scraping console startproject Create new project version Print Scrapy version view Open URL in browser, as seen by Scrapy [ more ] More commands available when run from project directory Use "scrapy <command> -h" to see more info about a command
