I am a new Python user and I'm trying to web scrape with the requests-html module. I'm working on a mac with Jupyter. When I type
pip install requests-html
and it looks like I could install the Module because I get the following message:
Requirement already satisfied: requests-html in /Users/usr/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages (0.10.0)
Then I type
from requests-html import HTMLSession
and get the following error:
File "<ipython-input-6-af86b1357aeb>", line 1
from requests-html import HTMLSession
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I would appreciate any help for solving this problem.
It's from requests_html import HTMLSession not from requests-html import HTMLSession.
Read more here.
This might be a super newbie question but I am trying to import BeautifulSoup to my python project:
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
but I am getting this error:
import BeautifulSoup
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'BeautifulSoup'
From what I am reading I have to install it make a child folder for it? If so why do my other imports such as import urllib.request work without installation and this one doesn't?
Python comes with a default set of modules - you can see that urllib is included with your installation of Python by looking at the list of default modules on this page.
You should follow these instructions to download and use pip, the Python package manager and installer, to get and install the BeautifulSoup module.
I have installed Python 3.6 and have tried to install Beautiful Soup 4. After several issues the bs4 installation worked but every time I try and reference the bs4 installation with from bs4 import beautifulsoup, I get the following error:
ImportError: cannot import name 'beautifulsoup'
I have set the PATH variable to point to the python36-32 folder and the bs4 folder has been created in python36-32\lib\site-packages.
Any assistance would be much appreciated!
The correct way to import is from bs4 import BeautifulSoup.
If you look at the examples in the documentation you can see how to use it.
I am trying to use BeautifulSoup, and despite using the import statement:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
I am getting the error: ImportError: cannot import name BeautifulSoup
import bs4 does not give any errors.
I have also tried import bs4.BeautifulSoup and just importing bs4 and creating a BeautifulSoup object with: bs4.BeautifulSoup()
Any guidance would be appreciated.
The issue was I named the file HTMLParser.py , and that name is already used somewhere in the bs4 module.
Thanks to everyone that helped!
I found out after numerous attempts to solve the ImportError: cannot import name 'BeautifulSoup4' that the package is actually called BeautifulSoup so the import should be:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Make sure the directory from which you are running your script does not contain a filename called bs4.py.
I solved it by installing beautifulsoup4, the "4" is essential.
pip install beautifulsoup4
I experienced a variation of this problem and am posting for others' benefit.
I named my Python example script bs4.py
Inside this script, whenever trying to import bs4 using the command:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, an ImportError was thrown, but confusingly (for me) the import worked perfectly from an interactive shell within the same venv environment.
After renaming the Python script, imports work as expected. The error was caused as Python tries to import itself from the local directory rather than using the system copy of bs4
Copy bs4 and beautifulsoup4-4.6.0.dist-info from C:\python\Lib\site-packages to your local project directory. It worked for me. Here, python actually looks for the library in local directory rather than the place where the library was installed!
The bs4 and beautifulsoup4 folders might be in the site-packages folder. So copy BeautifulSoup4 folder in bs4 and then try the below code. It worked for me.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Since you were importing BeautifulSoup from bs4 and in bs4 there was no BeautifulSoup folder. That is why it was showing ImportError: cannot import name BeautifulSoup.
One of the possible reason: If you have more than one python versions installed and let's say you installed beautifulsoup4 using pip3, it will only be available for import when you run it in python3 shell.
I was also facing this type error in the beginning even after install all the modules which were required including pip install bs4 (if you have installed this then no need to install beautifusoup4 | BeautifulSoup4 through pip or anywhere else it comes with bs4 itself)
Solution : Just go to your python file where it is installed C:\python\Lib\site-packages
and then copy bs4 and beautifulsoup4-4.6.0.dist-info folders and paste it to your project folder where you have saved your working project.
The best way to resolve is, while creating your interpreter select your global python path on your system(/usr/local/bin/python3.7).
Make sure that in pycharm shell, python --version appears as 3.7. It shouldn't show 2.7
There is no problem with package just need to Copy bs4 and
beautifulsoup4-4.6.0.dist-info into your project directory
When I used
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
instead of
pip install beautifulsoup4
it returned that all requirements already satisfied but I ran it again and it worked, I'm using a virtualenv which uses python 3.8.10, I don't really know the logic behind it but hey it worked.
I had the same problem. The error was that the file in which I was importing beautifulsoup from bs4 was in another folder. Just replaced the file out of the internal folder and it worked.
For anyone else that might have the same issue as me. I tried all the above, but still didn't work. issue was 1 was using a virtual environment so needed to do pip install in the pycharm terminal instead of a command prompt to install it there. Secondly I had typed import Beautifulsoup with the S not capitalized. changed to BeautifulSoup and it worked.
For me it was a permissions issue. Directory "/usr/local/lib/python#.#/site-packages/bs4" was only 'rwx' by root and no other groups/users. Please check permissions on that directory.
I've unpacked BeautifulSoup into c:\python2.6\lib\site-packages, which is in sys.path, but when I enter import BeautifulSoup I get an import error saying no such module exists. Obviously I'm doing something stupid... what is it?
You might have more than one python version installed? Check the version you are running.
Also, I found using easy_install worked well for installing BeautifulSoup.