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"Cannot find the path specified" when setting up patent crawler

I am trying to set up the wenyalintw patent scraper. I got everything installed. I then go to execute the command cd src main.py and it tells me the system cannot find the path specified.

I tried changing it to cd src "path to main.py" and it tells me the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Did I break it? How do I run the scraper?

Solution

  • You're combining two commands. At the end of the Getting Started section, it says to run:

    cd src
python main.py

    These are two separate commands. The first changes the current working directory to the src directory, which contains a file named main.py. After doing that, the second command runs the file main.py.