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"
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Okay, so, I'm running Python 3.4.3 with pip 9.0.1, with the setuptools and wheel.
I'm running this inside JetBrains PyCharm Professional 2017.2.3.
The issue I'm having is trying to install the twitter api packages from this tutorial (ya I'm a n00b) http://wiki.openhatch.org/Twitter
I'm struggling with installing the 4 dependencies mentioned in the first part of the tutorial (httplib2, simplejson, oauth2 and python-twitter)
Honestly, I'm just getting back into programming and this is a project I'd like to complete.
So, I need help with:
Installing pip, and how to use it, and where (python shell or command line or)
the dev.twitter.com website (and where to find what I need from there)
Any help is massively appreciated and sorry if I sound really n00by, but do correct me where I'm using incorrect terms etc because that's how I learn I guess :)
If you haven't got pip installed, find your python installation file.Execute it and choose 'Change Python Installation'. Now choose 'pip' to install and 'add python.exe to path'. Wait for it to finish. Now run windows command line and type:
pip install package_name
Sometimes you may experience that a package isn't available on pip or doesn't work.There are 2 common (not always working) ways to install a package without making pip download the file:
1) A package may be available as a .whl file for download.Download it.Now find it and copy its name .Open a command line in dictionary where it is located and type
pip install **now paste the filename and add .whl**'
2)A package is available as a zip file.Packages are often packed into a zip file.Download the file and extract it.Open a command line in it's directory.You may see setup.py file.Run
python setup.py install
When finished installing pip and adding python to path,you can run:
pip install httplib2 simplejson oauth2 python-twitter
Done.
Once you have pip installed, open the command prompt and just type pip install name_of_the_extension.
In this case, pip install httplib2 will install this package.
I believe you have pip installed on your computer, so it shouldn't be a problem to install the 4 packages you need.
I have installed the pip3 as well as requests package in my pc.Even then on running the command import requests on my shell,i am getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'
I have to manually copy all the packages to my working directory to tackle this exception.
Find were your python is installed and find Scripts directory. Open cmd, go to this folder and type pip install requests.
For me it was like below:
cd C:\Users\myLocalUserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts
pip install requests
In PyCharm you should:
Go back to base configuration in "File" - "Settings" - "Python Interpreteter" (it is the path that ends with "...\python.exe")
Click on the plus and install this module by typing name in search field.
Choose this configuration and run it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F10
For listing instaled modules for Python 3:
sudo pip3 list
For installing the request module for Python 3:
sudo pip3 install requests
Make sure that requestes module should have version starts with 2
Not correct
pip3 list
Package Version
requestes 0.0.1
I installed this and installed using
python -m pip install requests
Later :
PS C:\python\Scripts> pip list
Package Version
certifi 2021.5.30
chardet 4.0.0
idna 2.10
pip 21.1.3
requests 2.25.1
urllib3 1.26.6
Activate Virtual Environment
.\env\Scripts\activate
Install the dependencies,
pip install request
Been tackling this issue for 2 hours now, this solution did it!
Find your Python installation location and, specifically, the Scripts directory. Open cmd, and run the following:
cd C:\Users\<myLocalUserName>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts
pip install requests
For me, I used the package manager within my IDE (Pycharm in this case) to see if 'request' was installed. Once I did that, then the error went away.
I also tried pip install, but I suspect I have multiple python on the system and pip didn't install to the correct python. This is why others are suggesting to install from a specific python installation.
In Linux or Mac, you can run 'which python' for additional clues.
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 am trying to install easy_install in order to use BeautifulSoup... However I have no clue what my PATH directory is... when I run easy_install BeautifulSoup.. I get
error: Not a recognized archive type: C:\docume~1\tom\locals~1\temp\weasy_install-w6haxs\BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz
I am guessing this has something to do with the PATH that is not set up right in Environment Varibales..... But I have no clue what my Path should be...
Any help would be appreciated... I am very new to all of this so speaking english rather than programming would be appreciated lol..
Install beautifulsoup is exactly what I did yesterday. These steps work for my windows 64:
Download and run ez_setup.py at
http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
This will install easy_install.exe to python scripts directory. For me it is C:/python26/scripts
CD to C:/python26/scripts
Run easy_install.exe pip
This will install pip.
Then run pip install beautifulsoup4 to get beautiful soup.
Be sure to allow these tools access to the Internet in your firewall program.
Try install a binary version:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#Base
and there are lots of binary packages~ choose the suitable version and type for you.
I'd Try to download the source .py files, find the setup.py files and run in command line: <path_to_source_archive>\setup.py install
this usually works when easy_install stutters.
I want to install pyquery on windows. But i cant run setup.py install on the command line. Do you have any hint?
I guess you don't have lxml or setuptools installed
setuptools
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c11
lxml
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.2.2
Install them first and then try again, I just tried that, its working properly here.
I could not install lxml on windows with either pip or easy_install. Complained "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat"
Tried installing Cygwin and MinGW but that was taking way too long
found out from raidsan's answer about unofficial precompiled windows binaries
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
installed and works fine now
SIMPLE WORKING SOLUTION:
I download the tar file here pyquery-1.2.13.tar.gz (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery#downloads)
I extracted them a folder pyquery-1.2.13 then i pasted myscript.py to this folder pyquery-1.2.13 in my script i have these lines at the very top to include pyquery module and it works!
import pyquery (this file is in pyquery-1.2.13 folder)
from pyquery import *
Done.
I'm using miniconda on Windows and here is how I installed pyQuery :
Download python miniconda from http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html
(if you need many libraries at once, consider installing anadonda instead)
Then from the commandline prompt, run the following commands:
conda install lxml
conda install setuptools
Grab the lastest pyQuery source from https://codeload.github.com/gawel/pyquery/zip/master and unzip it to a directory.
Again from the commandline, go to this directory and run :
python setup.py install