install BeautifulSoup

Question

im running python 3.1.2 on my ubuntu 10.04

which version of BeautifulSoup i need to install and how?

i already download version 3.2 and run sudo pytho

Answer 1

Try beautifulsoup4. It works for both Python 2.x and Python 3.x.

Then just try with:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Answer 2

The only series of BeautifulSoup which works with Python 3 is 3.1 However the author has abandoned it and will not release updates. You can read more about the problems here.

UPDATE: This is no longer true, BeautifulSoup 4 works on Python 3. You can install it with pip install beautifulsoup4.

pip install BeautifulSoup will install version 3.

Answer 3

I followed these steps to install beautifulsoup4 for HTML parsing.

• Download the Beautiful Soup 4 source tarball and install it with

  $ python3 setup.py install
  

• After that enter your python3 console

  $ import bs4
  $ from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  

The first statement will work while the second will fail. You have to change BeautifulSoup module into python3 format with the help of this command.

$ 2to3 -w bs4

3 After that you can run the test again, and everything will work fine.