Install scrapy on windows XP platform

SCRAPY is a screen scraping framework. web scraper,web extracter, are similar to screen scraping. what a web scraper can do? It can extract desired information from the website of interest,then you may transfer or research information that be saved as a file to what you want. for more detail check its website: SCRAPY

Install scrapy on windows platform note:

A1# requirement and prepare

Step1:
Install python(Python 2.6 or 2.7) (Python is a programming language)

Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.7.3):download python 2.7.3 (now)

After downloading, click the file python-2.7.3.msi to install python on windows XP, and finish installing.

Step 2:
Add python folder PATH to windows system PATH
click system in control panel=>click environment variable=>select path and edit it in environment variable=> add C:\python27\Scripts and C:\python27 where the python folder is to path (;C:\python27\Scripts;C:\python27)

Step3:
Install OpenSSL
download and install OpenSSL(the regular version) and Visual C++ 2008 redistributables(download link) on Win32 OpenSSL page (Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.1e)
add c:\openssl-win32\bin to the PATH, the same as STEP2

Step4:
download  pip or easy_install for installing SCRAPY (ex:easy_install here)
(setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe)
 
A2# Install SCRAPY


To install using : easy_install scrapy

for more details see the install section in the documentation: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html

setup error:  unable to find vcvarsall.bat when setup twisted 12.3.0
fixed method:download twisted win32 setup file and install it directly, then reinstall scrapy and success (Twisted-12.3.0.win32-py2.7.‌exe)(another link: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads)
or setup Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (still not try it)

Next step: scrapy tutorial