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 ?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Also, if you are using python3, you should use:

pip3 install beautifulsoup4

Answer 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.