How to fix 'PROXIES is empty' error for scrapy spider - python-3.x

Question

I am trying to run a scrapy spider through the use of a proxy and am getting errors whenever I run the code.
This is for Mac OSX, python 3.7, scrapy 1.5.1.
I have tried playing around with the settings and middlewares but to no effect.
class superSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "myspider"
def start_requests(self):
print('request')
urls = [
'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/',
'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/2/',
]
for url in urls:
yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse)
def parse(self, response):
print('parse')
The errors I get are:
2019-02-15 08:32:27 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.5.1 started
(bot: superScraper)
2019-02-15 08:32:27 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml
4.2.5.0, libxml2 2.9.8, cssselect 1.0.3, parsel 1.5.1, w3lib 1.19.0,
Twisted 18.9.0, Python 3.7.1 (v3.7.1:260ec2c36a, Oct 20 2018,
03:13:28) - [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)], pyOpenSSL 18.0.0 (OpenSSL
1.1.0j 20 Nov 2018), cryptography 2.4.2, Platform Darwin-17.7.0-
x86_64-i386-64bit
2019-02-15 08:32:27 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings:
{'BOT_NAME': 'superScraper', 'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS': 25,
'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'superScraper.spiders', 'RETRY_HTTP_CODES':
[500, 503, 504, 400, 403, 404, 408], 'RETRY_TIMES': 10,
'SPIDER_MODULES': ['superScraper.spiders'], 'USER_AGENT':
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0;
+http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)'}
2019-02-15 08:32:27 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.memusage.MemoryUsage',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
Unhandled error in Deferred:
2019-02-15 08:32:27 [twisted] CRITICAL: Unhandled error in Deferred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 171, in crawl
return self._crawl(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 175, in _crawl
d = crawler.crawl(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1613, in unwindGenerator
return _cancellableInlineCallbacks(gen)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1529, in _cancellableInlineCallbacks
_inlineCallbacks(None, g, status)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1418, in _inlineCallbacks
result = g.send(result)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 80, in crawl
self.engine = self._create_engine()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 105, in _create_engine
return ExecutionEngine(self, lambda _: self.stop())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 69, in __init__
self.downloader = downloader_cls(crawler)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py", line 88, in __init__
self.middleware = DownloaderMiddlewareManager.from_crawler(crawler)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/middleware.py", line 58, in from_crawler
return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings, crawler)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/middleware.py", line 36, in from_settings
mw = mwcls.from_crawler(crawler)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy_proxies/randomproxy.py", line 99, in from_crawler
return cls(crawler.settings)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy_proxies/randomproxy.py", line 74, in __init__
raise KeyError('PROXIES is empty')
builtins.KeyError: 'PROXIES is empty'
These websites are from the documentation for scrapy and it works without using a proxy.

Answer 1

For anyone else having a similar problem, this was an issue with my actual scrapy_proxies.RandomProxy code
Using the code here made it work:
https://github.com/aivarsk/scrapy-proxies
Go into the scrapy_proxies folder and replace the RandomProxy.py code with the one found on github
Mine was found here:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy_proxies/randomproxy.py