How to install Beautifulsoup

Beautifulsop is an open-source library/package for Python. It is used for easy to scrap information from websites. 

We are going to install Beautifulsop 4 python library also known as BS4.

Prerequisites

• Installed Python on your system.
• Terminal/commend line access.

Installing Beautifulsop4(BS4)

Follow the bellow steps to complete installing process.

Step 1 : Check the Python Version

Before you can install BS4, you need to know which python version you have.

Most provably you have python 2 or python 3 or even both version.

To check whether Python version you have, run the bellow commend

python -V

Output will as bellow -

Python 3.9.6

Step 2 : Check pip version

 Check the pip version you have installed as bellow commend - 

pip -V

Output will as bellow - 

pip 21.1.3 (python 3.9)

Step 3 : Install BS4

With pip you can install BS4 by commend line commend as bellow - 

pip install beautifulsoup4

OR

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

Step 4 : Verify BS4 Installation

Verify BS4 is properly installed by show commend as bellow - 

pip show beautifulsoup4

then you will show the output and confirm you have BS4, which version you have.

Step 5 : Import BS4 Package

After installing BS4 package, you can import the package  as bellow - 

from bs4 as BeautifulSoup

By following this guide you should have successfully installed BS4 on your system. If this article was helpful leave a comment.