Scrapy spider not found error

Also make sure that your project is not called scrapy! I made that mistake and renaming it fixed the problem.

Have you set up the SPIDER_MODULES setting?

SPIDER_MODULES

Default: []

A list of modules where Scrapy will look for spiders.

Example:

SPIDER_MODULES = ['mybot.spiders_prod', 'mybot.spiders_dev']

Make sure you have set the "name" property of the spider. Example:

class campSpider(BaseSpider):
   name = 'campSpider'

Without the name property, the scrapy manager will not be able to find your spider.