From this message on google groups:
Your spider module is named the same as your scrapy project module, so
python is trying to import items relative to byub.py spider.
You are facing a common regret of python imports, see
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328
quicks fixes:
- rename your spider module to byub_org.py or similar.
- or use
from __future__ import absolute_import
in byub.py spider. - or rename your project to something like byubbot.