Python Crawling & Data Mining

Sep 21, 2026 · Backend Development

Fix Common Scrapy Installation Errors on Windows: lxml, Visual C++, Twisted Workarounds

This tutorial walks through installing Scrapy on Windows, resolving frequent errors like missing lxml by using unofficial Windows binaries, fixing Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 requirement via Build Tools, and a workaround for unsupported Twisted wheels by renaming .whl to .zip and extracting.