If we go to: https://pypi.org/project/bs4/ we can read:
This is a dummy package managed by the developer of Beautiful Soup to prevent name squatting. The official name of PyPI’s Beautiful Soup Python package is beautifulsoup4. This package ensures that if you type pip install bs4 by mistake you will end up with Beautiful Soup.
So given the following line in python: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment How can I replace it with beautifulsoup4? ie I don't want to install bs4 package at all as it's just a dummy package as claimed...
A distribution package and the import package it contains do not necessarily have the same name. In other words the thing that you install does not necessarily have the same name as the thing you import. Even though the convention is to give them the same name, there are exceptions. And "Beautiful Soup" is such an exception.
So you pip install beautifulsoup4 but you import bs4.
With that said, you can probably safely uninstall bs4:
python -m pip uninstall bs4
as long as you still have beautifulsoup4 installed:
python -m pip install beautifulsoup4
python -m pip show beautifulsoup4
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On MacOS, I installed homebrew, then installed pip.
Trying to use a Python scraper that uses "BeautifulSoup" package.
Ran: pip install -r requirements.txt
requirements.txt includes:
BeautifulSoup
ipython
BeautifulSoup gives an error, after googling I realized that there is a new version. so I ran:
pip install beautifulsoup4
seems to have installed correctly. Then I ran the scraping script and I got the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scrape.py", line 3, in <module>
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup
I tried changing BeautifulSoup to BeautifulSoup4 in the script, but it is the same error.
Anything else I can try?
This is the script I am trying to use: https://github.com/jojurajan/wp-content-scraper
This is essentially because beautifulsoup4 has a different interface to
its previous versions.
The old version exposes a module named BeautifulSoup.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
The new way to import the module in Python would be.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
However, it seems that you are using a scraper written by someone else relying on the old BeautifulSoup. To solve this you have to install the old version.
Maybe you can share the complete requirements.txt and we will see what is the version it's using.
The code in question was created by me. The scraper uses Python 2.7 and older version of BeautifulSoup. It was a mistake on my part to not mention the Python version and BeautifulSoup version in requirements.txt. Newbie mistakes while releasing code into the wild. :)
I have updated the README to specify about the supported Python version.
I have installed the html5lib package. I'm sure because when i try to install it, i get a message that it is already installed.
pip install html5lib
Requirement already satisfied: html5lib in ./anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages
Also i am able to successfully import that package.
import html5lib
Yet when I try to use the parser as a part of the BeautifulSoup constructor
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.data, 'html5lib')
I'm unsuccessful
FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: html5lib. Do you need to install a parser library?
Is it possible to force bs4 to lookup the installed parsers and successfully find html5lib?
Took Megalng's suggestion and restarted the IDE. That did the trick!
Every single dependency I try to install results in a ton of troubleshooting before I can get IDLE to recognise that it's installed.
I'm on a Mac, and I'm using the Terminal's pip install. I also have two versions of IDLE – one for Python 2, the other for 3.
pip install says "beautifulsoup" is installed
pip3 install says "beautifulsoup" is installed, and yet it doesn't appear that IDLE knows that it is.
I've tried "import beautifulsoup4, import beautifulsoup, from bs4 import beautifulsoup..."
Why is this happening for every dependency I install?
It's not beautifulsoup or Beautifulsoup
Try this from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
I have spent the past 45 minutes hopelessly trying to run:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
But to no avail. I have tried the commands:
python -m pip install beautifulsoup4
where it says:
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
I have tried:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
where it says the same.
I have tried:
pip install beautifulsoup4
Same thing.
I have looked all over stackoverflow, youtube, I am driving myself insane trying to figure this out. I have no idea what to do, please help me.
When I try to run my program main.py with the following code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
With py -3 main.py, I get the error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4'
Please please please please help me.
I have tried the method proposed at BeautifulSoup4 can't be installed in python3.5 on Windows7 but to no avail.
Now there is beautifulsoup4 for Python 3.6.
It's the same, am using it this way on my webcrawl project.
Just add the beautifulsoup4 module to the project. Then try the line
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
As of now the module is not getting loaded to python3.6 Try This
python3.6 -m pip install beautifulsoup4
I went through something similar but managed to install BeautifulSoup4. I tried running the commands suggested but none of it worked. So here's what I did.
On the command prompt, I decided to try running the commands on the python scripts directory
cd C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts
then
pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
You should see something that says
Collecting BeautifulSoup4
Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (86kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 6.7kB/s
Installing collected packages: BeautifulSoup4
Successfully installed BeautifulSoup4-4.6.0
Hope this helps.
Just install:
pip3 install bs4 --user
Import in code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
res = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.content,"html.parser")
Just install this instead: https://anaconda.org/ (This is what we use at work to manage imports).
It's basically Python with the top 100 modules all installed. The only downside is size (300 MB).
The problem is that while it installed beautifulsoup4 and several libraries are not supported on Python 3.6 at the moment.
You have two options. You can either use a virtual environment like Anaconda or virtualenv as Alan suggested. Here you will make an environment and set the python version to 3.5
The other option is to uninstall python 3.6 and install 3.5 and then beautifulsoup4
I was getting this same error on a mac and the problem stemmed from using Python 2.7.10 when I thought I was using 3.7.
python test.py
File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ImportError: No module named bs4
However when I was explicit about what python version I wanted to use everything worked. So on the terminal use python and then your version number. Example my version is 3.7:
python3.7 test.py
Thanks noobninja,
As for extending Python 3.8 to BeautifulSoup4, only using ANACONDA worked with me (using MAC OS).
Download Anaconda for Mac OS (more than 2 GB)
In terminal: test Anaconda installation:
$ conda list
$ conda install beautifulsoup4
Run Python3 shell
type : from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
No error message !
I did sudo pip install BeautifulSoup4 and got an awfully optimistic response:
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py egg_info for package beautifulsoup4
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up..
but when I try to use import BeautifulSoup4 or from BeautifulSoup4 import BeautifulSoup4 in a script, python says there's no module by that name.
> import BeautifulSoup
ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup
Update: pip tells me beautifulsoup4 in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages but I'm running 2.7.2+ (and print sys.path sees 2.7 paths) ... so now I need to figure out why pip is putting things in the wrong place.
Try import bs4. It's unfortunate there's no correspondence between PyPI package name and import name. After that the class names are the same as before eg. soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(doc) will work.
If that still doesn't work, try pip install again and note the path to the package install. Then in your python console run import sys and print sys.path to make sure that the path is there.
You might need to explicitly specify pip-2.7 or switch to easy_install (or easy_install-2.7)
Try this:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
I had this issue while using VS Code and the Pylance extension. I was able to resolve it by finding the location of my python packages (in my case it was "c:\python39\lib\site-packages"), and adding that to the external resolution paths in Pylance's settings. Pylance was then able to locate the import. I used below code segment to import BeautifulSoup from bs4.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
After trying the easy_install and pip if things dont work then download the tz package from the package website untar it in a folder. Now open cmd window and go to the directory where you unzip the tz and run the command 'python setup.py install' IT should work