From Bs4 Import Beautifulsoup
How can I from bs4 import BeautifulSoup? – Stack Overflow
This code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Doesn’t work, and gives this error:
raise AttributeError, “‘%s’ object has no attribute ‘%s'”% (self. __class__. __name__, attr)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
What should i do?
asked Sep 16 ’13 at 15:08
4
You should be using pip to install, so you can simply do
pip install beautifulsoup4
That will install the latest BS4, which is 4. 3. 1 as of 2013-08-15. It supports Python 3.
answered Sep 16 ’13 at 15:27
JordanJordan29. 9k6 gold badges52 silver badges65 bronze badges
Also, if you are using python3, you should use:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
answered Aug 19 ’19 at 11:55
tonhozitonhozi4205 silver badges6 bronze badges
For Windows…
Go to start menu type cmd right click on cmd icon click run as administrator
then type pip install beautifulsoup4.
It likely will fail to install correctly if you fail to do the above step as even though your windows user is an admin account it does not run all apps as administrator.
Notice the difference if you simply just open cmd without the run as admin.
Remember also when using it like so…
from bs4 import beautifulsoup4
Will not work as it is not correctly formatted.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup4
Will work correctly as it is CaseSensitive.
answered Aug 16 ’17 at 8:10
Goulouh AnwarGoulouh Anwar6371 gold badge9 silver badges20 bronze badges
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Beginner: need to import Beautiful Soup 4 into Python – Stack Overflow
If you’re using Python 3. 4, you should have either pip or the pip auto-bootstrap already installed, under the name pip3. * So all you need to do is this:
$ pip3 install beautifulsoup4
Adding sudo as appropriate, of course.
If you somehow don’t have pip, you should get it. Tool Recommendations in the Packaging User Guide is the first place you should look for up-to-date instructions, but it will just link you to the pip docs, which will tell you to do the following:
Download
Install it with python3 (again with sudo if necessary)
pip is a Unix command-line program, not a Python command. So, if you know nothing about Unix systems like Mac OS X, here’s what you do:
First, launch, either via Spotlight (hit Cmd+Space and start typing, and when the full name shows up, hit Return) or through Finder (open Applications from the sidebar, then open Utilities, then you’ll find).
Now you’ll get a text window running the bash shell. Just like Python prompts you for the next command with >>>, bash prompts you for the next command with $, or maybe something like My Computer:/Users/me$. So, after that prompt, you type pip3 install beautifulsoup4. If it works, you’re done, you now have bs4 installed, so next time you run Python 3. 4 (whether via IDLE, or on the command line with python3, or anywhere else), you’ll be able to import it.
If you get an error saying something about Permission denied, you need to use sudo to manage your Python. You know how GUI programs like System Preferences sometimes pop up a dialog asking for you to type your username and password to give them administrator permissions? sudo is the way you do that from the command line. You type sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4, and it will ask for your password. After you type it in, everything should work.
If this all sounds like way too much, you may want to consider getting a more powerful Python IDE (Integrated Development Environment) than IDLE. I haven’t tried them all (and Stack Overflow isn’t a good place to look for recommendations, but you can google for them), but I know at least some of them have a nice graphical way to manage your installed packages so you don’t have to use the command line and pip. PyCharm and PyDev (part of Eclipse) seem to be popular. However, you really should consider going through a basic tutorial on using the Mac as a Unix system at some point; there are so many concepts you’ll need to write even simple Python scripts.
* Slightly oversimplifying PEP 394, when you have both 2. x and 3. x on the same system (which you do—Apple preinstalled 2. 7 for you, and you installed 3. 4), you use python3, pip3, etc. to run the 3. x version.
** How do you know if sudo is necessary if you don’t understand basic Unix administration? If you’ve installed Python 3. x via Homebrew, it’s not. Via MacPorts or Fink, it is. Via the binary installer, or a third-party binary installer, it depends on the settings you chose at install time, which you will not remember… so just try without sudo; if it works, you don’t need sudo for pip, but if you get a permissions error, try again with sudo, and if that works, then you need sudo for pip.
Frequently Asked Questions about from bs4 import beautifulsoup
What is from bs4 import BeautifulSoup?
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.Feb 24, 2020
How do I import a BeautifulSoup 4 in Python?
You type sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4 , and it will ask for your password. After you type it in, everything should work. If this all sounds like way too much, you may want to consider getting a more powerful Python IDE (Integrated Development Environment) than IDLE.Sep 13, 2014
How do I import from BeautifulSoup?
To use beautiful soup, you need to install it: $ pip install beautifulsoup4 . Beautiful Soup also relies on a parser, the default is lxml . You may already have it, but you should check (open IDLE and attempt to import lxml). If not, do: $ pip install lxml or $ apt-get install python-lxml .
