How can I from bs4 import BeautifulSoup?
Question:
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 ?
Answers:
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.
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.
Also, if you are using python3, you should use:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
In your terminal run below code:
pip install beautifulsoup4
If you are using Jupyter notebook run below code in your python file not in terminal.
!pip install beautifulsoup4
if it successfully install you get below output:
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in
c:usersanaconda3libsite-packages (4.11.1)
Then run your code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
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 ?
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.
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.
Also, if you are using python3, you should use:
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
In your terminal run below code:
pip install beautifulsoup4
If you are using Jupyter notebook run below code in your python file not in terminal.
!pip install beautifulsoup4
if it successfully install you get below output:
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in
c:usersanaconda3libsite-packages (4.11.1)
Then run your code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup