python - Scrapy installed, but won't run from the command line

Question

I'm trying to run a scraping program I wrote for in python using scrapy on an ubuntu machine. Scrapy is installed. I can import until python no problem and when try pip install scrapy I get

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): scrapy in /system/linux/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

When I try to run scrapy from the command, with scrapy crawl ... for example, I get.

The program 'scrapy' is currently not installed.

What's going on here? Are the symbolic links messed up? And any thoughts on how to fix it?

Answer 1

Without sudo, pip installs into $HOME/.local/bin, $HOME/.local/lib, etc. Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or the appropriate place for other shells):

export PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/.local/bin"

then open a new terminal or reload .bashrc, and it should find the command.