Crontab can't import packages

Question

I'm on MacOS Catalina and I've created a python file with the contents being just

import beautifulsoup

And the crontab is setup as:

*/1 * * * * PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ /Users/ABC/Downloads/downloading_tables.py  >> /Users/ABC/Desktop/cron.log 2>&1

But the logs keep throwing the error "No module named 'beautifulsoup'"

I tried adding pip install beautiful soup in the python file but it threw a syntax error on the word install.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks!

Don't believe that the problem is with crontab, if you run `pip3 install beautifulsoup4` does it install or triggers already installed error? — andreis11, Apr 21 '20 at 16:01
Also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59123499/crontab-is-not-running-my-script-catalina — BowlOfRed, Apr 21 '20 at 16:59
Adreis, I tried that, the installation goes through. "Requirement already satisfied" — RainmakerP, Apr 22 '20 at 03:17
BowlofRed, already done that, crontab has full disk access permissions. — RainmakerP, Apr 22 '20 at 03:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '20 at 16:30

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Use command

pip install bs4

to install Beautiful Soup and then import as :-

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Hope That Helps!

answered Apr 21 '20 at 16:30

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Thank you Samarth. This works. How do we get this to work with third party libraries such as Quandl, though? – RainmakerP Apr 22 '20 at 03:16
@diablojunk BeautifulSoup should work alongside Quandl. Just install Quandl using pip3 install quandl and you are ready to go – LFC Apr 22 '20 at 16:06

Crontab can't import packages

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