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Importing BeautifulSoup to Monkeyrunner

Is there a way to import BeautifulSoup (or something similar for web scraping) to monkeyrunner?

Importing BeautifulSoup to Python program was successful. However, I was getting the importError when importing to monkeyrunner

ImportError: No module named bs4

After some digging, I appended the BeautifulSoup path name

import sys

sys.path.append("path/to/monkeyrunner/directory/the_filename.egg") sys.path.append("path/to/monekeyrunner/directory")

This enabled Monkeyrunner to correctly see the directory for BeautifulSoup. However, complains about something in BeautifulSoup; see below:

   from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
SyntaxError: ("no viable alternative at input '' ''", ('C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-
packages\\bs4\\__init__.py', 186, 56, "                if ((isinstance(markup, b
ytes) and not b' ' in markup)\n"))

Again, there is no error with importing to python. Any suggestion as to why this might be the case with monkeyrunner?

Solution

  • You can try AndroidViewClient/culebra which is 100% python. It will provide you with almost all the functionality in monkeyrunner and more.

    bs4 can be imported in your script with no problems.