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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 41

How to Import Libraries into python project from GitHub

I am trying to create a project in python using some libraries from GitHub that I found. I am using InstaPy and Instagram-API-python. My project structure is as follows

How would I import both these into the insta.py file? I am new to python and not sure how the imports work.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8607

Answers (1)

kdopen
kdopen

Reputation: 8215

Don't copy them into your project folder, use pip to install them on your Python path.

But first, read about virtual environments.

Once you have your virtual environment set up and activated you can install the packages thus:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy.git
$ pip install git+https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python.git

Then, in your python script just import them

from instapy import InstaPy
import InstagramAPI

and use them.

I followed these instructions and it (mostly) worked. It looks like InstagramAPI needs an executable installed (ffmpeg) which I'm not wanting to install on my laptop. It reports the error during the initial import.

I could definitely import instapy .. but notice that it is all lower case.
But since there is only the InstaPy class in the instapy module, it's best to simply import it this way.

More on InstaPy here: https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy

Upvotes: 3

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