ImportError: cannot import name 'RoboBrowser' from 'robobrowser'

Question

I am very new to Python and have used BeautifulSoup to parse and scrape information from some webpages. Now I need to fill out a form. submit it, and scrape some data after filling in the form, and it seems the easiest way is to use robobrowser.

However, I can't import robobrowser. I have installed robobrowser several different ways and robobrowser is located here:

C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages

Here is my script:

import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import datetime

import webbrowser

import re

from robobrowser import RoboBrowser

br = RoboBrowser()

etc....

The problem is the script will not run past "from robobrowser import RoboBrowser" and I get the following message:

ImportError: cannot import name 'RoboBrowser' from 'robobrowser'

Answer 1

Maybe your robobrowser package is corrupted

Now try Installing robobrowser using PyPI

first check if python package named as PyPI is installed on your system using this command in your terminal

pip --version

if it is installed then it will show the output like that

To install robobrowser using PyPI run this command in your terminal

pip install robobrowser

now import it

from robobrowser import RoboBrowser
br = RoboBrowser()