Is there an alternative way to install dependencies for an Alexa Skill (requirements.txt is troublesome)?

Question

I'm trying to develop an Alexa Skill which uses MechanicalSoup to scrape some data from a web search. My code works but I'm unable to install MechanicalSoup via the 'requirements.txt' file. I've even added all of MechanicalSoup's dependencies, like so:

boto3==1.9.216
ask-sdk-core==1.11.0
requests==2.25.1
beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
lxml==4.9.0
soupsieve==2.3.2.post1
urllib3==1.26.9
certifi==2022.5.18.1
chardet==4.0.0
idna==2.10
mechanicalsoup==1.2.0

but I'm having no luck.

My events log looks like this:

Do you have any idea what I can do to get this to work? Is there a way to install directly with pip install, if so, how?

Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe:

• your requirements.txt doesn't work? you could try to pip install -r requirements.txt on your computer, to see if the requirements actually work
• Your build server builds with a different version of python then your computer? for example, you could have python 3.10, while alexa has python 2.7