Install Scrapple

The requirements covers the system requirements in detail.

If you’re running Ubuntu, install the necessary C libraries for the lxml module.

$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev lib32z1-dev

If you’re running any other Linux distro, follow the standard install procedures and install these libraries.

You may not have to do this on your Windows machine.

Install the requirements for running Scrapple with

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If this fails because of the access privileges, run the command with sudo.

You can then install Scrapple with

$ pip install scrapple or $ sudo pip install scrapple

To verify that Scrapple has been installed correctly, try the scrapple command from the command line.

$ scrapple --version

This should display the version of Scrapple installed.