Unable to import items in scrapy

Question

I have a very basic spider, following the instructions in the getting started guide, but for some reason, trying to import my items into my spider returns an error. Spider and items code is shown below:

from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector

from myProject.items import item

class MyProject(BaseSpider):
    name = "spider"
    allowed_domains = ["website.com"]
    start_urls = [
        "website.com/start"
    ]

    def parse(self, response):
        print response.body

from scrapy.item import Item, Field

class ProjectItem(Item):
    title = Field()

When I run this code scrapy either can't find my spider, or can't import my items file. What's going on here? This should be a really example to run right?

Answer 1

I also had this several times while working with scrapy. You could add at the beginning of your Python modules this line:

from __future__ import absolute_import

More info here:

• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#rationale-for-absolute-imports
• http://pythonquirks.blogspot.ru/2010/07/absolutely-relative-import.html

Answer 2

you are importing a field ,you must import a class from items.py like from myproject.items import class_name.