How can I install the Beautiful Soup module on the Mac?

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I read this without finding the solution: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html

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pip install beautifulsoup4 – Pramod May 20 '13 at 09:17

score 78 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 16 '12 at 23:49

The "normal" way is to:

Go to the Beautiful Soup web site, http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Download the package
Unpack it
In a Terminal window, cd to the resulting directory
Type python setup.py install

Another solution is to use easy_install. Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall), install the package using the instructions on that page, and then type, in a Terminal window:

easy_install BeautifulSoup4
# for older v3:
# easy_install BeautifulSoup

easy_install will take care of downloading, unpacking, building, and installing the package. The advantage to using easy_install is that it knows how to search for many different Python packages, because it queries the PyPI registry. Thus, once you have easy_install on your machine, you install many, many different third-party packages simply by one command at a shell.

After you are done installing, use this import command for BeautifulSoup4.0 : "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup" — fixxxer, Apr 02 '12 at 11:19
Installing on Mac? Throw in the `sudo ` before `python setup.py install`. — Parapluie, May 12 '20 at 17:41

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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I think the current right way to do this is by pip like Pramod comments

pip install beautifulsoup4

because of last changes in Python, see discussion here. This was not so in the past.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Jun 12 '14 at 07:08

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I have no idea why, but doing `pip install beautifulsoup`, without the final `4`, install some beautifulsoup package that is not found in import. – srodriguex Mar 24 '15 at 02:48
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@srodriguex Do: *pip search beautifulsoup* and you see which packages they have there. No *bautifulsoup* but *beautifulSoup*. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Mar 24 '15 at 06:07
I think some users may need sudo else may get the following error "OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.6.0.dist-info'" – mani deepak Jun 06 '18 at 14:55

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 16 '09 at 22:41

Brian beat me too it, but since I already have the transcript:

easy_install

aaron@ares ~$ sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup
Searching for BeautifulSoup
Best match: BeautifulSoup 3.0.7a
Processing BeautifulSoup-3.0.7a-py2.5.egg
BeautifulSoup 3.0.7a is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/BeautifulSoup-3.0.7a-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for BeautifulSoup
Finished processing dependencies for BeautifulSoup

.. or the normal boring way:

aaron@ares ~/Downloads$ curl http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/BeautifulSoup.tar.gz > bs.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 71460  100 71460    0     0  84034      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  111k

aaron@ares ~/Downloads$ tar -xzvf bs.tar.gz 
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoup.py
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoup.py.3.diff
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoupTests.py
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoupTests.py.3.diff
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/CHANGELOG
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/README
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/setup.py
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/testall.sh
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/to3.sh
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/PKG-INFO
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoup.pyc
BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/BeautifulSoupTests.pyc

aaron@ares ~/Downloads$ cd BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1/

aaron@ares ~/Downloads/BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
<... snip ...>

I tried with easy_install and then I just tried to test at the terminal but I still get the following error. — add-semi-colons, Sep 29 '11 at 03:15
this works great! i did not have write privileges in my python2.7/site-packages. So I had to do "super user do" or sudo ... — ERJAN, Dec 29 '15 at 04:17

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 07 '14 at 07:23

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Download the package and unpack it. In Terminal, go to the package's directory and type

python setup.py install

edited Apr 07 '14 at 07:23

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answered May 18 '11 at 13:05

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 20 '13 at 10:02

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sudo yum remove python-beautifulsoup

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sudo easy_install -m BeautifulSoup

can remove old version 3

answered Mar 20 '13 at 10:02

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score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Mar 27 '14 at 10:09

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On advice from http://for-ref-only.blogspot.de/2012/08/installing-beautifulsoup-for-python-3.html, I used the Windows command prompt with:

C:\Python\Scripts\easy_install c:\Python\BeautifulSoup\beautifulsoup4-4.3.1

where BeautifulSoup\beautifulsoup4-4.3.1 is the downloaded and extracted beautifulsoup4-4.3.1.tar file. It works.

edited Mar 27 '14 at 10:09

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answered Oct 08 '13 at 20:09

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