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.
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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.
The same question has been asked a number of times but I couldn't find the solution.
After I install a package using pip, I am able to import it in python console or python file and it works as expected.
The same package when I try to include in django, it gives import error.
Do I need to modify settings.py file or any requirement that I need to add? I am driving django with the help of virtual env.
Eg:
I am using BeautifulSoup and I am trying to import from bs4 import BeautifulSoup and I am getting error ImportError: No module named 'bs4'
This error only comes in django. I am not able to figure out why this is happening.
Screenshot attached for reference.
1. python console - shows no error
2. django console- import error
I am sorry as it is difficult to read the console but any other thing that I can include which will help me make myself more clear will be appreciated.
You don't show either the code of your site or the command you ran (and the URL you entered, if any) to trigger this issue. There's almost certainly some difference between the Python environment on the command line and that operating in Django.
Are you using virtual environments? If so, dependencies should be separately added to each environment. Were you operating from a different working directory? Python usually has the current directory somewhere in sys.path, so if you changed directories it's possible you made bs4 unavailable that way.
At the interactive Python prompt, try
import bs4
bs4.__file__
That will tell you where bs4 is being imported from, and might therefore give you a clue as to why it's not available to Django.
I am trying to import urllib.request for python 2.7.10 on PyCharm 4.5.4 on Window 10 but getting the error "ImportError: No module named request".
The urllib.request modules have been deprecated ..
just use
import urllib
And for your function if you were earlier writing say
urllib.request.urlretrieve
Now you just write
urllib.urlretrieve
I have also faced the same error and Googled to solve it.
urlib.request is for Python 3.0.
You may use the code below:
import urllib
urllib.urlopen(url)
You'll get this error if you try running a python 3 file with python 2.
Try to use this in Python3
try:
x = urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.google.com/search?q=test')
print(x.read())
except Exception as e:
print(str(e))
It may happen sometimes, usually in the Linux environment. You have both 2.x and 3.x versions of python installed.
So, in that case, if you are using the command python "file.py"
then by default, it will python 2.x will run the file.
So, use the command python3 "file.py"
I was facing this issue. Maybe it can resolve someone's issue.
Try this:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import urllib
response = urllib.urlopen("http://google.com")
html = response.read()
print(html)
The first line "#!/usr/bin/env python3" is important, as it let python know that this is Python 3 file, not 2.
Hope everything works.
Use > Path\easy_install.exe requests if you have a windows machine, where easy_install can be found in your Python*\Scripts folder, if it was installed. (Note Path\easy_install.exe is an example, mine is C:\Python32\Scripts\easy_install.exe)
If you don't have easy install and are running on a windows machine, you can get it here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#distribute
If you manually want to add a library to a windows machine, you can download the compressed library, uncompress it, and then place it into the Lib folder of your python path.
OR
You need to install pip first and then install django-request using pip
pip install django-request
also install,
python setup.py install
then import
from urllib.request import urlopen
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When I try to import beautifulsoup with the code below in Python 3.0 in Eclipse I get the Error ImportError: No module named 'bs4'. However, when I run the code in my IPython Notebook I don't receive an Error and when I try to install it again in the Command Prompt I get the message Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade). I don't know how to resolve this.
from bs4 import beautifulsoup
Edit: Downloaded Python 3.4.3 and having the same issues as described above.
The line should be:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Capitalization is important in Python. If you're using an old version of BeautifulSoup (which you shouldn't be), it's:
import BeautifulSoup
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.