How to use Scrapy in Anaconda?

Question

I am very new to programming and may have asked a very silly question. Kindly bear with me.

I have installed Anaconda, and I have installed Scrapy as a package. In Anaconda Navigator > Environments > roots, Scrapy can be found as a package.

Now I start to follow the Scrapy tutorial (Link) and come across the following instruction:

May I know, where in the Anaconda Natvigator should I click so that I have a "compiler" writing screen for me to enter the code?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe you should open " Anaconda Prompt " ----------a terminal using Linux Command line in your Anaconda directory： enter image description here

then, type scrapy startproject yourproject_name ,it will create a project in current directory. after you finish your scrapy_project, type : scrapy crawl the_name_in_your_class_of_yourcode , it will show the INFO and result !!!

Answer 2

I used the Anaconda prompt, put the scrapy instructions there like this: