python - 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 capscapsspiderscampSpider.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:Python27libsite-packagesscrapy-0.14.0.2841-py2.7-win32.eggscrapyspidermanager.py", l
ine 43, in create
    raise KeyError("Spider not found: %s" % spider_name)
KeyError: 'Spider not found: campSpider'

Am I missing some configuration item?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9876793/scrapy-spider-not-found-error

Answer 1

Make sure you have set the "name" property of the spider. Example:

class campSpider(BaseSpider):
   name = 'campSpider'

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