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Ive been googling for hours to no luck.

Whenever I try to pip install beautiful soup in terminal, i get the following error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/h4/0vpghp6j7xbgzctcbm50btf00000gn/T/pip-install-jd0tuia4/beautifulsoup/

I tried everything suggested here to no luck. "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

Can anybody help me figure out whats going on here?

Thanks!

Alex
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    Please include the full error message in your question. If you are starting a new project, it might be better to install `beautifulsoup4`, which supports Python 3, instead of the legacy `beautifulsoup`. – Alasdair Aug 10 '18 at 12:11
  • try `pip install bs4` – tushortz Aug 10 '18 at 12:28

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for python 2 use 

pip install beautifulsoup

and for python3 

pip install beautifulsoup4

It is recommended to use beautifulsoup4 for new projects as beautifulsoup3 is no longer being developed.

ibarrond
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