If you are trying to install Scrapy globally via pip on El Capitan, you may go through some trouble related to six.

OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/2r/m12cht2j3332gy6tlqd66xmw0000gn/T/pip-tAYZND-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

You can read more about this issue.

To fix this you can use virtualenv or simply install Python using brew:

brew install python

And then:

sudo pip install scrapy

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