ImportError: No Module Named bs4 (BeautifulSoup)

Try this:

sudo python3 -m pip install bs4

pip3 install BeautifulSoup4

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

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

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.

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

conda install -c anaconda beautifulsoup4

This worked for me.

pipenv pip install BeautifulSoup4

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.

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.

pip install --user BeautifulSoup4

pip3.7 install bs4

Try this. It works with python 3.7

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.

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

You might want to try install bs4 with

pip install --ignore-installed BeautifulSoup4

if the methods above didn't work for you.

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

pip install --ignore-installed BeautifulSoup4

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).

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

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

One more solution for PyCharm:

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

Click install.

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

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.