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.. _install:
How to install Scrapy
=====================
Requirements
============
* `Python <http://www.python.org>`_ 2.5 or above
* `Twisted <http://twistedmatrix.com>`_
* `libxml2 <http://xmlsoft.org>`_
* `pyopenssl <http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net>`_
Optional:
* `spidermonkey <http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/>`_
* `simplejson <http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/>`_
Install Python
==============
Scrapy works with Python 2.5 or above, you can get it at http://www.python.org.
Install required libraries
==========================
The procedure for installing the required third party libraries (twisted, libxml2 and pyopenssl) depends on the platform and OS you use.
If you're running Ubuntu/Debian Linux do:
.. code-block:: bash
apt-get install python-twisted python-libxml2 python-pyopenssl
Or in Arch Linux do:
.. code-block:: bash
pacman -S twisted python-lxml pyopenssl
Install Scrapy code
===================
We're working hard to get the first release of Scrapy out. In the meantime, please download the latest development version from the Subversion_ repository.
To do this, follow this steps:
1. Check out Scrapy code (you will need to have Subversion_ installed):
.. code-block:: bash
svn co http://svn.scrapy.org/scrapy/trunk/ scrapy-trunk
2. Add Scrapy to your Python path. You can do this by making a symbolic link to your system ``site-packages`` directory like this:
.. code-block:: bash
ln -s `pwd`/scrapy-trunk/scrapy SITE-PACKAGES/scrapy
Where ``SITE-PACKAGES`` is the location of your system ``site-packages`` directory, to find this out execute the following:
.. code-block:: bash
python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"
Or by adding the ``scrapy-trunk`` directory to your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable, like this:
.. code-block:: bash
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`/scrapy-trunk:PYTHONPATH
3. Make the ``scrapy-trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py`` script executable system-wide. To do this create a symbolic link to the file in a directory on your sistem path, like:
.. code-block:: bash
ln -s `pwd`/scrapy-trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py /usr/local/bin
.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/