Scrapy spider not found error

Question

This is Windows 7 with python 2.7

I have a scrapy project in a directory called caps (this is where scrapy.cfg is)

My spider is located in caps\caps\spiders\campSpider.py

I cd into the scrapy project and try to run

scrapy crawl campSpider -o items.json -t json

I get an error that the spider can't be found. The class name is campSpider

...

    spider = self.crawler.spiders.create(spname, **opts.spargs)

  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.14.0.2841-py2.7-win32.egg\scrapy\spidermanager.py", l

ine 43, in create

    raise KeyError("Spider not found: %s" % spider_name)

KeyError: 'Spider not found: campSpider'

What am I missing here ?

Answer 1

Set the "name" property of the spider. 

For Example:

class campSpider(BaseSpider):

   name = 'campSpider'

Without the name property, the scrapy manager will not be able to find your spider.