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user12951955
user12951955

Reputation:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4' [BeautifulSoup]

I was trying to run a simple python file using BeautifulSoup when I received the following error message in Atom.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4'

I have already installed BeautifulSoup using the following command in my Macbook's terminal.

$ pip3 install beautifulsoup4

I want to note that I have both Python 2.7.10 and Python 3.8.5 installed. I looked at my installed modules, and I only see 'bs4' in the modules for python3 and not in python.

When I try to place scrape.py in Atom or PyCharm, both text editors say that the module does not exist. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.


scrape.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/lyons/Documents/scrape/scrape.py", line 2, in <module>
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4'
[Finished in 2.237s]

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13352

Answers (4)

Mitzi
Mitzi

Reputation: 2811

If anyone runs into this - bs4 behaves unexpectedly when working with subprocess (my setup includes venv). What worked for me was a revision of the suggested solution:

def install_bs4():
    subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "bs4"])

try:
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
except:
    install_bs4()
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Upvotes: 4

user12951955
user12951955

Reputation:

None of the previous answers managed to fix my error, but an ugly solution that I found was to just add the following code to the start of the file.

import subprocess
import sys

def install(package):
    subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", bs4])

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Upvotes: 3

Samrat Sahoo
Samrat Sahoo

Reputation: 575

If you are on a Unix-based system, try running from root:

sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4

Upvotes: 0

hi1
hi1

Reputation: 36

Try to install in particular version of Python

python2.7 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

python3.8 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

Upvotes: 1

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