when I write bs4 on vs code it said
Import bs4 could not be resolved from source
and it has a yellow underline
and I tried to write in the terminal install beautifulsoup4 many times but it didn't work
Use pip install beautifulsoup4 to install the package with pip.
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I'm trying to install a few packages (beautifulsoup4 and requests) for a project.
I installed these packages by running these commands in the terminal on macOS:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
pip3 install requests
both did install successfully.
Now if I open my project in PyCharm, I can import the modules by using:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
Both packages are imported successfully and can be used in my code.
To be sure everything was installed correctly, I looked at the venv/lib/Python3.10 folder. beautifulsoup4-4.10.0.dist-info, bs4, requests and requests-2.27.1.dist-info are present.
However, when I run the CGI script (Python), I get the following error in the terminal:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4'
Even when I open a new terminal window and run the following commands:
python3
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
it runs fine without any errors.
The same issue happens for the requests package.
I also ran pip3 install bs4 but that also didn't fix anything.
I found what caused the issue. bs4 and requests were both installed correctly but in my CGI script, I used the wrong Python path. I had to change #!/usr/bin/python3 to the path that which python3 gave me.
I would recommend to always install packages using python3 -m pip install <name_of_the_package>. In this way you can be sure that you are using the correct pip.
To make sure that the python you a using really has the packages installed, try python3 -m pip list.
If all is good, check if the python interpreter the pycharm is using in your project is the right one.
It sounds to me that in pycharm you're using a virtual environment, but when you are using python3 at the terminal, you a using the main installation.
I am trying to install BeautifulSoup to my Python 3.4 on my Windows 8.1. I have already set the PATH to pip folder. Then I run this command:
pip install BeautifulSoup
but i get this error:
How can i fix that?
This is because BeautifulSoup package maps to BeautifulSoup 3rd version which is not maintained anymore and doesn't support Python3. Quote from it's PyPI page:
This package is OBSOLETE. It has been replaced by the beautifulsoup4
package. You should use Beautiful Soup 4 for all new projects.
You need to install the beautifulsoup4:
pip install beautifulsoup4
I am trying to install BeautifulSoup4 and having trouble with pip. I have installed pip but when I go to run pip install BeautifulSoup nothing happens. Just a new line comes up on CMD
e.g.
C:\Python27\Scripts>pip install BeautifulSoup
C:\Python27\Scripts>
Anyone have any ideas? This is Windows 7 btw. May well be something obvious I'm missing as I'm really new to Python.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I should also add that when I then try from bs4 import BeautifulSoup I get the following error:-
ImportError: No module named bs4
Try these troubleshooting steps
1.Be sure you've followed all of these instructions carefully.
2.Check your path environmental variables to make sure you can run python from the command line.
3.Check your python DIRECTORY for the SCRIPTS folder. Look there to see if pip is there. I'm not 100 percent for sure but I think you must have pip here for it to be able to run from the command line.
By the way:
4.If you have python 3.4 or later, pip may already be installed.
if all else fails....
5.download this and run this in an admin cmd window:
python get-pip.py
6.try running the update commands if nothing else has worked.
pip install -U setuptools
7.er....switch to easy_install
I'm struggling to get BeautifulSoup installed on Windows. So far, I have:
downloaded BeautifulSoup to "My Downloads".
unzipped/ extracted it in the downloads folder.
At the command prompt, I ran:
C:<path to python33> "C:path to beautiful soup\setup.py" install
The process generated the messages:
running install
running build
running build_py
**error: package directory 'bs4' does not exist.**
Yet, in the path to BeautifulSoup in quotes above, there is indeed the folder bs4. What am I missing?
You need to be in the directory containing setup.py to run it. Make sure your working directory is correct.
I had a similar problem. In my case, I was able to get pip to work, but first I had to look up the right name for the package:
wrong: pip install bs4
fail
wrong: pip install beautifulsoup
fail
right: pip install beautifulsoup4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
I had same problem when tryingo to export my wordpress blog to jekyll with this tutorial.
My first step was to install pip with success & next try to install BeautifulSoup with it:
pip install bs4 # failed
pip install BeautifulSoup # that was succes
But... 2nd line install BeatifulSoup3, not most recent version 4...
So I've uninstalled bs3:
pip uninstall BeautifoulSoup # with success
Downloaded most recent bs4 from this site & installed it manually within command/mingw:
cd %bs4-download-dir%
python setup.py install
And now everything is OK :)
For clean install without pip nor easy_install :
Your paths
(change it by your paths)
Your python path : c:\Python27\python.exe
Your beautyfulsoup path : c:\BeautifulSoup
Instruction to follow for clean installation :
cd c:\BeautifulSoup
"c:\Python27\python.exe" setup.py install
Have fun and share !
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Make sure the batch file you used to run "python" "\beautifulsoup4-4.3.1\setup.py" install is in the same directory as "\beautifulsoup4-4.3.1\setup.py"
I have tried everything here: How can I install the Beautiful Soup module on the Mac?
Installation seems to work (getting correct output during install) from both the traditional way to install and also using easy_install but when I use:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
the interpreter says no such module exists.
What should I look at first to troubleshoot this?
To see all the packages you have installed, you can run the following in a interpreter:
>>> help('modules')
That will list for you all the modules you have installed. Look for bs4 in the list (which seems to be alphabetical). Another option is to issue at your prompt:
$ python -c "help('modules')" | grep bs4
If nothing comes up, or you cannot find it in the list, the module is not installed.
To install it, I used sudo pip install bs4. You may need to run sudo easy_install pip first to get pip. Also note the use of sudo, as this may make a difference.
And I'm running 10.8 build version 12C60.
I have an uggly solutions which works for me:
try:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
except ImportError:
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as bs
after what, I call everything with bs prefix.
I've had the same issue. bs4 is installed but it wasn't showing up in help(modules).
I don't know if this will work for others, but I had the same issue with openCV and solved it by adding the following before trying to load the package. It worked for openCV and it just worked for bs4:
import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages')