Scrapyd - "spawnProcess not available since pywin32 is not installed" even after pywin32 installation

Question

I have latest version of Scrapy and latest version of Scrapyd available through pip install.

I am trying to run a spider via request to http://localhost:6800 (Scrapyd).

Scrapyd returns following error :

builtins.NotImplementedError: spawnProcess not available since pywin32 is not installed.

I have installed pywin32 via pip :

pip install pywin32

It was successfully installed as i got back this message :

Successfully installed pywin32-227

What is the problem? Pywin32 is installed on my system but Scrapyd still says it is not.

Answer 1

Try installing https://pypi.org/project/pypiwin32/ using

pip install pypiwin32

pip install pypiwin32

Answer 2

You can try to copy two dlls in python3\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32 to C:\Windows\System32.

Answer 3

Do you have the other required dependecies? I was missing twisted and it was giving me a similar error.