How to install python libraries from GitHub onto PyCharm?

Question

I am just learning how to use GitHub, I want to download a python library to get the latest exchange rate between two currencies and I found one on GitHub. How would I download it and use it on pycharm?

Answer 1

If it is even a slightly popular library, it should have a PyPi page. Check the documentation or the README for any mention of

pip install <package_name>

If the above is not an option, then try this The repository link is probably something like:

https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git

For this, open a terminal and run

pip install https://github.com/<username>/<repo>/archive/master.zip

Replace username and repo from the URL.

Example: For pandas, the URL is: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas Running

pip install https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/arhcive/master.zip

should install pandas onto my system, but in the above case, as mentioned running pip install pandas should be enough as pandas is already published onto PyPi