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I'm currently following the Scrapy tutorial and am at the step where there's a creation of a project, however this error is produced everytime I run the command scrapy startproject tutorial.

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3Scriptsscrapy-script.py", line 10, in <module>
 sys.exit(execute())
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesscrapycmdline.py", line 149, in execute
 cmd.crawler_process = CrawlerProcess(settings)
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesscrapycrawler.py", line 252, in __init__
 log_scrapy_info(self.settings)
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesscrapyutilslog.py", line 149, in log_scrapy_info
 for name, version in scrapy_components_versions()
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesscrapyutilsversions.py", line 35, in scrapy_components_versions
 ("pyOpenSSL", _get_openssl_version()),
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesscrapyutilsversions.py", line 43, in _get_openssl_version
 import OpenSSL
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesOpenSSL__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
 from OpenSSL import crypto, SSL
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesOpenSSLcrypto.py", line 16, in <module>
 from OpenSSL._util import (
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagesOpenSSL_util.py", line 6, in <module>
 from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding import Binding
 File "C:UsersMeMiniconda3libsite-packagescryptographyhazmatbindingsopensslbinding.py", line 13, in <module>
 from cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl import ffi, lib
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

I suspected that the issue is in my installation of Scrapy, so I tried reinstalling Scrapy(first via pip then conda) but it still doesn't fix the problem. I then tried to install the packages that Scrapy needed(one by one) but it's still not fixing anything.

How do I go about fixing this?

Can you try to install Win64OpenSSL_Light-1_0_2h and reinstall cryptography?

pip install -I cryptography

See this existing answer.