ImportError: No Module Named bs4 (BeautifulSoup)

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I'm working in Python and using Flask. When I run my main Python file on my computer, it works perfectly, but when I activate venv and run the Flask Python file in the terminal, it says that my main Python file has "No Module Named bs4." Any comments or advice is greatly appreciated.

Lol, my problem was pipenv installing bs4 with ipython as dev packages and then later reinstalling without including dev. Moving it to prod packages worked. — combinatorist, Apr 08 '22 at 22:57

score 287 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 22 '17 at 11:17

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Activate the virtualenv, and then install BeautifulSoup4:

$ pip install BeautifulSoup4

When you installed bs4 with easy_install, you installed it system-wide. So your system python can import it, but not your virtualenv python. If you do not need bs4 to be installed in your system python path, uninstall it and keep it in your virtualenv.

For more information about virtualenvs, read this

edited Nov 22 '17 at 11:17

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answered Aug 02 '12 at 19:52

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Imagine (for the example sake) that you're working on a project that requires a specific version of a module. You might also be working on a different project, requiring a **different** version of this module. If each project is located in virtualenvs, you will have two absolutely independent python environments, instead of having a system python environment with two versions of the same module. Keep your system env clean. Work in virtualenvs. – Balthazar Rouberol Aug 02 '12 at 19:58
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I cannot install, get error `locale.Error: unsupported locale setting` Do you have any idea ? – questionasker May 01 '17 at 01:26
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I can't truly guess without a traceback, but have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14547631/python-locale-error-unsupported-locale-setting – Balthazar Rouberol May 01 '17 at 09:10
Also remember that if you're using a venv, you have to use the python binary _from that venv_. `/usr/bin/python` (on a Mac OS) is wrong; it should be `/bin/python` – blamblambunny Jun 28 '19 at 13:30
I had to exit() Python so that the PIP install would work :) – Eoin Feb 12 '20 at 19:31

score 66 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '15 at 13:35

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For python2.x:

sudo pip install BeautifulSoup4

For python3:

sudo apt-get install python3-bs4

answered Jul 04 '15 at 13:35

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The official site `crummy.com` failed to provide `python3-bs4` package name. – Suraj May 24 '16 at 08:41
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for python 3 too `sudo pip install BeautifulSoup4` works – ishandutta2007 Dec 18 '19 at 03:09

score 18 · Answer 3 · edited May 29 '17 at 14:00

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Just tagging onto Balthazar's answer. Running

pip install BeautifulSoup4

did not work for me. Instead use

pip install beautifulsoup4

edited May 29 '17 at 14:00

Balthazar Rouberol

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answered Mar 14 '15 at 18:27

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score 16 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 09:59

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Try this:

sudo python3 -m pip install bs4

answered Jun 10 '19 at 09:59

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Wimukthi Rajapaksha · Answer 5 · 2020-03-28T15:03:07.137

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pip3 install BeautifulSoup4

Try this. It works for me. The reason is well explained here..

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answered Dec 29 '18 at 21:38

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score 10 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 11 '20 at 08:03

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I have been searching far and wide in the internet.

I'm using Python 3.6 and MacOS. I have uninstalled and installed with pip3 install bs4 but that didn't work. It seems like python is not able to detect or search the bs4 module.

This is what worked: python3 -m pip install bs4

The -m option allows you to add a module name.

https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html

answered Nov 11 '20 at 08:03

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you, my friend are a lifesaver – M. Junaid Salaat Apr 05 '22 at 07:29
This works for me running Python 3.6 on iMac in the year 2022. – Siddiqui Noor May 29 '22 at 07:04

score 6 · Answer 7 · edited Jun 05 '20 at 06:23

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If you use Pycharm, go to preferences - project interpreter - install bs4.

If you try to install BeautifulSoup, it will still show that no module named bs4.

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answered Sep 30 '16 at 18:44

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score 6 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 09 '21 at 21:09

It is so annoying to find the answer has nothing to do with BeautifulSoup. To the linux users, be vary of running the command 'python', version 2 exits and you may have forgotten to change the bash file alias of python. And so you might have created the virtual environment using 3 with

python3 -m venv .venv

So, to install things, go with

python3 -m pip install beautifulsoup4

not

pip install beautifulsoup4

Things get installed in different versions and you scratch your head as to what is going on.

Shashank Rawat · Answer 9 · 2019-02-07T12:03:26.787

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I will advise you to uninstall the bs4 library by using this command:

pip uninstall bs4

and then install it using this command:

sudo apt-get install python3-bs4

I was facing the same problem in my Linux Ubuntu when I used the following command for installing bs4 library:

pip install bs4

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answered Apr 17 '18 at 18:08

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score 5 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 10 '18 at 05:57

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If you are using Anaconda for package management, following should do:

conda install -c anaconda beautifulsoup4

answered Aug 10 '18 at 05:57

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The option "-c anaconda" is the default, so "conda install beautifulsoup4" does the same and is easier to memorize :-) – PatrickT Apr 29 '20 at 23:56

score 4 · Answer 11 · answered May 06 '21 at 02:32

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This worked for me.

pipenv pip install BeautifulSoup4

answered May 06 '21 at 02:32

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score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 04 '20 at 04:03

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I did what @rayid-ali said, except I'm on a Windows 10 machine so I left out the sudo. That is, I did the following:

python3 -m pip install bs4

and it worked like a pycharm. Worked like a charm anyway.

answered Jul 04 '20 at 04:03

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score 2 · Answer 13 · edited Oct 07 '19 at 07:45

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pip install --user BeautifulSoup4

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answered Oct 07 '19 at 06:51

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Franck Hervé · Answer 14 · 2019-09-17T18:51:11.347

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pip3.7 install bs4

Try this. It works with python 3.7

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answered Sep 17 '19 at 18:27

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Nov 03 '19 at 08:52

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A lot of tutorials/references were written for Python 2 and tell you to use pip install somename. If you're using Python 3 you want to change that to pip3 install somename.

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score 1 · Answer 16 · answered Nov 22 '21 at 18:29

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The better method is ("-U" : Upgrade all package(s) to the newest available version.) :

$ python3 -m pip install -U pip && python3 -m pip install -U bs4

or install from apt (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) :

$ sudo apt install python3-bs4

answered Nov 22 '21 at 18:29

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score 1 · Answer 17 · answered Nov 08 '22 at 23:51

In my case, the when do

pip install beautifullsoap4

always gets installed to my python3.9 package where my

python3 --version

gave the output as Python 3.10.6 I fixed the issue of pip3 install by upgrading the pip and pointing correctly to 3.10 instead of 3.9

Then everything worked as expected

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Apr 19 '18 at 21:45

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The easiest is using easy_install.

easy_install bs4

It will work if pip fails.

answered Apr 19 '18 at 21:45

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered May 24 '20 at 18:52

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You might want to try install bs4 with

pip install --ignore-installed BeautifulSoup4

if the methods above didn't work for you.

answered May 24 '20 at 18:52

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score 0 · Answer 20 · edited Jun 19 '20 at 17:48

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Try reinstalling the module OR Try installing with beautiful soup with the below command

pip install --ignore-installed BeautifulSoup4

edited Jun 19 '20 at 17:48

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answered Jun 19 '20 at 16:07

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score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Jul 29 '20 at 19:12

Addendum to the original query: modules.py

help('modules')

$python modules.py

It lists that module bs4 already been installed.

_codecs_kr          blinker             json                six
_codecs_tw          brotli              kaitaistruct        smtpd
_collections        bs4                 keyword             smtplib
_collections_abc    builtins            ldap3               sndhdr
_compat_pickle      bz2                 lib2to3             socket

Proper solution is:

pip install --upgrade bs4

Should solve the problem.

Not only that, it will show same error for other modules as well. So you got to issue the pip command same way as above for those errored module(s).

score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Aug 17 '20 at 16:04

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In case you are behind corporate proxy then try using following command

pip install --proxy=http://www-YOUR_PROXY_URL.com:PROXY_PORT BeautifulSoup4

answered Aug 17 '20 at 16:04

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score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Dec 31 '21 at 04:39

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One more solution for PyCharm:

Go to File -> Settings -> Python Interpreter, click on plus sign and find beautifulsoup4.

Click install.

answered Dec 31 '21 at 04:39

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score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Jul 03 '22 at 04:17

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I also experienced this problem with Python 3. In my case I was able to solve it by running:

$ pip3 install BeautifulSoup4

Instead of:

$ pip install BeautifulSoup4

answered Jul 03 '22 at 04:17

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score 0 · Answer 25 · answered Jul 18 '22 at 22:09

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You will need to have pip in your PATH environment variable. If you don't have it then use this link: python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

This worked for me. Hopefully, it works for you too.

answered Jul 18 '22 at 22:09

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score 0 · Answer 26 · edited Feb 26 '23 at 15:30

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After reading all the answers, what worked for me was adding the --clean option with pyinstaller.

Example:

pyinstaller --onefile --console --clean --name Email_Parser main.py

What I tried and did not work:

Deleting and recreating the virtual environment
python -m pyinstaller
Installing pyinstaller in the virtual environment

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answered Feb 22 '23 at 08:20

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