ImportError: cannot import name discovery

Question

I am using Google's python API client, and one of the lines it wants you to use is:

from apiclient import discovery

When I run this it returns the error:

ImportError: cannot import name discovery

Note: the apiclient module is installed and up to date

Thanks guys

Possible duplicate of [ImportError: No module named apiclient.discovery](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18267749/importerror-no-module-named-apiclient-discovery) — fredtantini, Aug 03 '17 at 07:00
@fredtantini but then I don't know how to implement that change into my code [this](https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python) is the whole google python api client code i used — Lewys Gardner, Aug 03 '17 at 07:05

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '18 at 08:57

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At some point apiclient module name was changed. If you cannot import discovery from apiclient, then try:

from googleapiclient import discovery

Hope this helps.

answered Apr 15 '18 at 08:57

Michał Jabłoński

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actually `apiclient` is an alias for `googleapiclient` in the latest implementations. So, this answer didn't change anything for me. Until I used the other answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46064844/1115187 (which is downvoted without a real reason) – maxkoryukov Aug 01 '18 at 14:47

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 01 '18 at 15:35

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You should be able to get these dependencies with this simple install:

sudo pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23521799/1115187

edited Aug 01 '18 at 15:35

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answered Sep 05 '17 at 23:54

Neeraj

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You just copied this from `https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18267749/importerror-no-module-named-apiclient-discovery` but it's not even the same question. – Mar 16 '18 at 11:12
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actually, this answer **solved** my problem. And the chosen one — no. – maxkoryukov Aug 01 '18 at 14:48
Didn't work for me, I still have the same error even though my libraries are up to date – Revolucion for Monica Jul 05 '21 at 15:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 11 '19 at 18:38

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Try this

sudo pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

I got the answer from this link: python install module apiclient

answered Jun 11 '19 at 18:38

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 16 '23 at 22:16

I encountered this issue after seeing the error message "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apiclient'," which prompted me to install apiclient via pip. After realizing this was probably the wrong library, I then instead installed google-api-python-client via conda, which resolved the error message.

(It looks like you were using google-api-python-client all along, but I wanted to share this in case anyone else was also trying to use the apiclient library on pip to execute google-api-python-client tasks.)

ImportError: cannot import name discovery

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