In this tutorial, we introduce a way to fix Twisted Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required Error when installing scrapy on windows without downloading and installing Microsoft Visual Studio.
Preliminaries
Check your windows system and python version.
Our is: win 10 + python 3.5
Download Twisted whl file.
You can download this file in here.
http://fstab.net/pypi/simple/twisted/
We select Twisted-18.4.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl to download.
Install twisted whl file
pip install f:\Twisted-18.4.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
To install .whl file, you also can read this tutorial.
You can get:
Installing collected packages: Twisted Successfully installed Twisted-18.4.0
Install Scrapy
pip install Scrapy
You will find scrapy library is installed successfully.
Installing collected packages: ScrapySuccessfully installed Scrapy-1.6.0