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I tried importing requests:

import requests

But I get an error:

ImportError: No module named requests

Primacy answered 25/6, 2013 at 23:34 Comment(9)

Did you install requests, using pip or easy_install? – Deciare 25/6, 2013 at 23:36

I get same issue, I installed via pip – Irremovable 14/8, 2016 at 17:6

just to note, I only get the issue from within Spyder, but not the cmd prompt. – Irremovable 14/8, 2016 at 17:7

@DavidCrook Did you got the solution? I have the same issue with only my IDE. – Wedding 24/6, 2018 at 17:14

I get the same result. pip3 reports "Requirement already satisfied:..." – Hebraist 8/7, 2018 at 16:14

I solved it; but I can-not recall how I did it. My guess is that since I was using from Spyder; I was likely in a different environment than I thought I was in and needed to install requests into the environment spyder was using in the IDE. – Irremovable 10/7, 2018 at 16:4

For me, it turned out to be a conflict with multiple installations of python. For instance, on my mac, somehow I've acquired python AND python2.7 in /usr/bin, which do not symlink to the same installation. Though pip, apparently, is installing modules for python2.7. Thus, python is not seeing those modules. Using python2.7, everything is working. I suppose I need to clean up my environment a bit. – Damick 19/10, 2018 at 11:47

requests module needs "charset_normalizer-3.1.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl". When I installed using pip(pip3) the result is as shown: Collecting requests Using cached requests-2.30.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB) Collecting charset-normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests) Using cached charset_normalizer-3.1.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (97 kB) It worked well. Please check whether the supported modules exist – Baro 21/5, 2023 at 14:3

Pyinstaller doesn't see where requests is.... try this "pyinstaller app.py --windowed --onefile --hidden-import requests". Use whatever options you need AND --hidden-import <module> – Bumpy 1/1, 2024 at 16:45

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Requests is not a built in module (does not come with the default python installation), so you will have to install it:

OSX/Linux

Python 2: sudo pip install requests

Python 3: sudo pip3 install requests

if you have pip installed (pip is the package installer for python and should come by default with your python installation). If pip is installed but not in your path you can use python -m pip install requests (or python3 -m pip install requests for python3)

Alternatively you can also use sudo easy_install -U requests if you have easy_install installed.

Linux

Alternatively you can use your systems package manager:

For centos: sudo yum install python-requests

For Debian/Ubuntu Python2: sudo apt-get install python-requests

For Debian/Ubuntu Python3: sudo apt-get install python3-requests

Windows

Use pip install requests (or pip3 install requests for python3) if you have pip installed and Pip.exe added to the Path Environment Variable. If pip is installed but not in your path you can use python -m pip install requests (or python3 -m pip install requests for python3)

Alternatively from a cmd prompt, use > Path\easy_install.exe requests, where Path is your Python*\Scripts folder, if it was installed. (For example: C:\Python32\Scripts)

If you manually want to add a library to a windows machine, you can download the compressed library, uncompress it, and then place it into the Lib\site-packages folder of your python path. (For example: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages)

From Source (Universal)

For any missing library, the source is usually available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/. You can download requests here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests

On mac osx and windows, after downloading the source zip, uncompress it and from the termiminal/cmd run python setup.py install from the uncompressed dir.

(source)

Demmer answered 25/6, 2013 at 23:36 Comment(17)

If any of you have pip installed on Windows, "pip install requests" will work just fine. I'm guessing that "easy_install requests" will work on osx/linux as well, but pip is generally preferred. (#3220904) – Atrium 10/8, 2013 at 14:25

for centos: yum install python-requests – Skirting 20/12, 2013 at 18:47

I got this:

Wheel installs require setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support. pip's wheel support requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support.

, so frustrating. – Creosol 3/3, 2014 at 3:25

On mac os x, if you have easy_install installed, you can also use: sudo easy_install -U requests – Majormajordomo 16/3, 2014 at 17:0

Note for posterity: for pip install requests to work (on a Mac) you need to use sudo – Monmouthshire 20/5, 2014 at 13:40

shouldn't it be > Path\easy_install.py requests – Couvade 3/2, 2015 at 19:40

On Linux, why do you need sudo for the command to work? It wouldn't work for me until I used sudo but they say you're not supposed to use sudo and pip together. Thanks in advance for the explanation. – Allisonallissa 19/7, 2017 at 11:35

@Allisonallissa depending on the privileges of the user you are currently logged in as, you may not have access to write in the system level directories, which get updated depending on what you install. As a result you use sudo to essentially give yourself root privileges to when executing the command, which ensures you have write access to system directories. – Demmer 19/7, 2017 at 18:2

In Java it is common practice to package dependencies with a project in a Libraries folder. Does Python have a similar practice? Or does each developer need to install Requests on their own machine? – Recess 27/10, 2017 at 16:52

got it working on Mac OS X using: sudo pip3 install requests – Duffey 3/5, 2018 at 21:52

Windows: Had to add dir with Pip.exe to Path Environment Variable. Then worked well. – Ignacia 19/10, 2018 at 12:54

sudo apt install python-requests will work on Kubuntu 18.04. – Iglesias 22/10, 2018 at 10:47

i had to restart the terminal after installing requests. – Matthews 30/3, 2019 at 5:30

apt-get install python3-requests for python3 – Cohune 21/4, 2021 at 7:5

if i have python3 is there any difference between pip install and pip3 install? – Addend 6/11, 2021 at 19:10

@Addend if you have multiple versions of python on your machine (python2.* and python3.*) then you could use pip3 to ensure your installing for python 3. If you just have python3 on your machine, then you can use either. – Demmer 22/1, 2022 at 18:9

For Rocky Linux : dnf install python-requests – Ibis 30/3, 2024 at 8:5

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It's not obvious to me which version of Python you are using.

If it's Python 3, a solution would be sudo pip3 install requests

Godden answered 8/11, 2016 at 23:0 Comment(1)

sudo pip3 install requests if you want it installed for all users on a machine, not just one user. – Photomural 13/2, 2018 at 15:46

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To install requests module on Debian/Ubuntu for Python2:

$ sudo apt-get install python-requests

And for Python3 the command is:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-requests

Eyestalk answered 22/7, 2016 at 18:42 Comment(0)

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Brew users can use reference below,

command to install requests:

python3 -m pip install requests

Homebrew and Python

pip is the package installer for Python and you need the package requests.

Gurney answered 28/8, 2019 at 14:14 Comment(3)

Would you care to add a brief explanation (here) of why this works? – Consanguineous 3/1, 2020 at 14:1

Added extra comment for pip info. – Gurney 4/1, 2020 at 19:9

I had to change the python to ~/anaconda3/envs/<env_name>/bin/python3 -m pip install requests ` – Massy 20/3, 2023 at 17:57

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This may be a liittle bit too late but this command can be run even when pip path is not set. I am using Python 3.7 running on Windows 10 and this is the command

py -m pip install requests

and you can also replace 'requests' with any other uninstalled library

Darvon answered 8/11, 2018 at 13:47 Comment(0)

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If you are using Ubuntu, there is need to install requests

run this command:

pip install requests

if you face permission denied error, use sudo before command:

sudo pip install requests

Libbie answered 17/4, 2015 at 10:23 Comment(1)

I am on Mint and am getting the same error even though it is installed. – Sloshy 7/9, 2016 at 14:48

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In my case requests was already installed, but needed an upgrade. The following command did the trick

$ sudo pip install requests --upgrade

Freese answered 13/12, 2016 at 1:47 Comment(1)

I tried this and it's still not working. How do I get it to work? – Trauner 30/1, 2022 at 2:51

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On OSX, the command will depend on the flavour of python installation you have.

Python 2.x - Default

sudo pip install requests

Python 3.x

sudo pip3 install requests

Attachment answered 7/1, 2018 at 1:7 Comment(2)

I didn't noticed difference, but it does matter. I have installed python 3.7 version, and requests using pip and it couldn't find it. When I installed via pip3 it works now. – Elin 24/8, 2018 at 14:7

Tried 'sudo pip3 install requests' and it seeed to download, but then when running the file with requests in it, got the typical "ImportError: No module named requests". So frustrating. – Inequality 14/3, 2020 at 14:17

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On Windows Open Command Line

pip3 install requests

Blocked answered 3/4, 2017 at 3:43 Comment(0)

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I had the same issue, so I copied the folder named "requests" from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests#downloads requests download to "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages". Now when you use: import requests, it should work fine.

Palais answered 20/7, 2014 at 2:50 Comment(2)

Now I've got No module named urllib3 :) – Terpene 14/10, 2018 at 15:38

@PavelAlexeev try executing this command before "pip install urllib3" – Hatband 27/4, 2019 at 5:33

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In the terminal/command-line:

pip install requests

then use it inside your Python script by:

import requests

or else if you want to use pycharm IDE to install a package:

go to setting from File in menu
next go to Python interpreter
click on pip
search for requests package and install it

Zephyr answered 6/6, 2020 at 9:43 Comment(5)

The OP never said anything about pycharm, 99% of users don't use pycharm, and it is totaly unnecessary to use pycharm to install a package, that's a one-line command-line task. Shouldn't even mention pycharm here. – Chor 22/6, 2020 at 2:30

Yes, 99% of Python users don't use pycharm. Like I said. Ok maybe 'only' 85% don't use it, even if we take JetBrains own numbers. I've personally never seen JetBrains used for Python development inside an org, and only ever heard of it being used in Java-dominated shops. The point again is that the OP never asked for an IDE-specific solution. – Chor 14/7, 2020 at 10:5

Please prove your point with the document 99%!!! or 85%!!! @Chor – Zephyr 14/7, 2020 at 10:10

I already told you above what numbers prove that: JetBrains' own numbers(!!!). Even allowing that JetBrains understate the many developers who don't use an IDE, but use vi/emacs. – Chor 14/7, 2020 at 10:15

lovely answer! for someone who coded in java for 15 years and loves JetBrain tools, pycharm is the first option. This helped me, thx a lot. – Thurston 8/12, 2020 at 2:26

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If you are using anaconda as your python package manager, execute the following:

conda install -c anaconda requests

Installing requests through pip didn't help me.

Oma answered 12/7, 2018 at 8:26 Comment(1)

I needed requests_ntlm, so had to run "conda config --add channels conda-forge" then "conda install -c anaconda requests_ntlm" – Barbarism 31/5, 2019 at 19:30

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Python Common installation issues

These commands are also useful if Homebrew screws up your path on macOS.

python -m pip install requests

or

python3 -m pip install requests

Multiple versions of Python installed in parallel?

Dukie answered 25/6, 2013 at 23:35 Comment(0)

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Adding Third-party Packages to the Application

Follow this link: Source

Step 1: Have a file by named a file named appengine_config.py in the root of your project, then add these lines:

from google.appengine.ext import vendor

Add any libraries installed in the "lib" folder.

vendor.add('lib')

Step 2: Create a directory and name it "lib" under root directory of project.

Step 3: Use pip install -t lib requests

Step 4: Deploy to app engine.

Gynaeceum answered 27/1, 2016 at 18:57 Comment(1)

This was actually what I was looking for. The above steps alone didn't work for AppEngine :) – Leake 13/9, 2016 at 22:40

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Try sudo apt-get install python-requests.

This worked for me.

Muzz answered 21/4, 2018 at 11:21 Comment(0)

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The only thing that worked for me:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install requests

Zoonosis answered 11/8, 2018 at 14:3 Comment(0)

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Facing the same issue but unable to fix it with the above solution, so I tried this way and it worked:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
python -m pip install requests

Lushy answered 28/5, 2021 at 8:19 Comment(2)

Number 3) you can also simply run pip install requests – Tenfold 19/8, 2021 at 8:14

please avoid using sudo with the pip command if possible – Cram 8/1, 2022 at 18:47

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For windows just give path as cd and path to the "Scripts" of python and then execute the command easy_install.exe requests.Then try import requests...

Cowbell answered 6/3, 2015 at 9:32 Comment(0)

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In case you hit pip install requests and had an output massage of Requirement already satisfied but yet you still get the error: ImportError: No module named requests.

This is likely to happen when you find yourself in a different interpreter/virtual environment.

You can copy and append the path of the module into your working environment.
Note: This path usually comes with the message Requirement already satisfied

Before import requests, you should import sys and then append the copied path.

Example:
Command Prompt:
pip install requests
Output:
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages

import sys
sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages")
import requests

Nicolnicola answered 18/8, 2022 at 6:39 Comment(0)

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I have had this issue a couple times in the past few months. I haven't seen a good solution for fedora systems posted, so here's yet another solution. I'm using RHEL7, and I discovered the following:

If you have urllib3 installed via pip, and requests installed via yum you will have issues, even if you have the correct packages installed. The same will apply if you have urllib3 installed via yum, and requests installed via pip. Here's what I did to fix the issue:

sudo pip uninstall requests
sudo pip uninstall urllib3
sudo yum remove python-urllib3
sudo yum remove python-requests

(confirm that all those libraries have been removed)

sudo yum install python-urllib3
sudo yum install python-requests

Just be aware that this will only work for systems that are running Fedora, Redhat, or CentOS.

Sources:
This very question (in the comments to this answer).
This github issue.

Vinny answered 30/8, 2017 at 15:39 Comment(3)

Gave that a try on oracle linux (basically RHEL) but didn't work. Posting so others can know about this result. Thanks though~ – Hong 19/1, 2018 at 20:30

@ragerdl Your issue may not specifically be with requests or urllib3. It could be with other python packages. It just depends on what you are trying to run. – Vinny 20/1, 2018 at 16:7

Indeed, I had two bad pythons in my path and an alias to a bad python too. Getting rid of those three python pointers resolved my issue. :) – Hong 20/1, 2018 at 23:17

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You must make sure your requests module is not being installed in a more recent version of python.

When using python 3.7, run your python file like:

python3 myfile.py

or enter python interactive mode with:

python3

Yes, this works for me. Run your file like this: python3 file.py

Sequent answered 21/3, 2019 at 3:59 Comment(0)

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Please try the following. If one doesn't work, skip to the next method.

pip install requests

or...

pip3 install requests

or...

python -m pip install requests

or...

python3 -m pip install requests

or...

python -m pip3 install requests

If all of these don't work, please leave a comment!
How does this work? Depending on the operating system you currently use, the pip command may vary or not work on some. These are the commands you may try in order for a fix.

Dorothi answered 5/1, 2022 at 12:55 Comment(0)

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Type this command in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Linux/macOS):

pip install requests

Antherozoid answered 22/8, 2022 at 13:3 Comment(0)

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I have installed python2.7 and python3.6

Open Command Line to ~/.bash_profile I find that #Setting PATH for Python 3.6 , So I change the path to PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13/bin:${PATH}" , (please make sure your python2.7's path) ,then save. It works for me.

Bitterroot answered 4/7, 2017 at 2:28 Comment(0)

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if you want request import on windows:

pip install request

then beautifulsoup4 for:

pip3 install beautifulsoup4

Lake answered 12/5, 2018 at 11:5 Comment(1)

I think what you mean is "requests" not "request". There is no library named "request" – Jerlenejermain 16/7, 2020 at 12:39

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I solved this problem.You can try this method. In this file '.bash_profile', Add codes like alias python=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

Discuss answered 13/12, 2017 at 23:41 Comment(0)

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I found that my issue was VSCode was reading from the wrong Python Interpreter. This youtube tutorial solved it for me.

Coccyx answered 27/9, 2022 at 11:23 Comment(1)

Please do not link to youtube tutorials. They are stale and will go out of date, and are not necessarily available to everyone – Network 21/1, 2024 at 22:45

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My answer is basically the same as @pi-k. In my case my program worked locally but failed to build on QA servers. (I suspect devops had older versions of the package blocked and my version must have been too out-of-date) I just decided to upgrade everything

$ pip install pip-review
$ pip-review --local --interactive

Refined answered 29/3, 2018 at 23:46 Comment(0)

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You get an import error because requests are not a built-in module instead, it is created by someone else and you need to install the requests.

use the following command on your terminal then it will work correctly.

pip install requests

Install python requests library and this error will be solved.

Magdau answered 6/12, 2021 at 3:8 Comment(0)

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If you are using anaconda step 1: where python step 2: open anaconda prompt in administrator mode step 3: cd <python path> step 4: install the package in this location

Chit answered 28/1, 2019 at 9:34 Comment(0)

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In my case it was showing request Requirement already satisfied . so I use.

sudo pip3 install requests

Galeiform answered 16/3, 2020 at 20:41 Comment(0)

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I had the same error even though I installed 'requests' several times. The problem was that I was installing requests in the global Python environment and not in the app virtual environment. Once I installed requests in the Virtual environment, the error disappeared. So here is a good reading on how to install 'requests' in the app virtual environment: Virtual Environments and Packages

Reaction answered 19/11, 2021 at 22:16 Comment(0)

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Following this tutorial:

$ pipenv install requests
Installing requests...
Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]...
 Installation Succeeded 
Pipfile.lock not found, creating...
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies...
Locking [packages] dependencies...
Building requirements...
Resolving dependencies...
 Success! 
Updated Pipfile.lock (a290a1)!
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (a290a1)...
   ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉ 0/0 — 00:00:00
To activate this project's virtualenv, run pipenv shell.
Alternatively, run a command inside the virtualenv with pipenv run.
$ pipenv shell
Launching subshell in virtual environment...
 . /home/[user]/.local/share/virtualenvs/[id]/bin/activate
$ python3
Python 3.10.5 (main, Jul  5 2022, 00:20:23) [GCC 9.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/ip')
>>> print('Your IP is {0}'.format(response.json()['origin']))
Your IP is xx.xxx.xx.xxx

Adamite answered 5/7, 2022 at 5:29 Comment(0)

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What did actually work for me, and is going to work for you is to find out the path of yours scripts folder

For example C:\Python31\Scripts
Via CMD, navigate with CD to this folder
Type > pip, to see wether is there/it does work
pip install requests; or any other packages that produces the error.
Done

Best Regards, Roman

Bearberry answered 29/7, 2023 at 7:50 Comment(1)

thank you for your efforts to provide an answer. How is you answer any different from the existing ones ? at the end you just install requests as suggested in the best answer. – Washery 2/8, 2023 at 17:55

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Pyinstaller doesn't see where requests is.... try this:

pyinstaller app.py --windowed --onefile --hidden-import requests

Use whatever options you need AND --hidden-import module. This is tested and works when there is a local import package that uses requests but requests is not imported directly into the py file you are compiling.

Bumpy answered 1/1, 2024 at 17:33 Comment(0)

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Follow the below steps to resolve this issue. I tried this in Windows - VS Code. The issue got resolved.

Create a virtual environment py -m venv venv
Activate the virtual environment .\venv\Scripts\activate
Install the library pip install requests
Run your python program py abc.py

Adames answered 17/2, 2024 at 0:8 Comment(0)

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If you are using VS Code in MacBook (OSX), for me below line of code works. You can give it a try.

brew install python-requests

Neaten answered 9/4, 2024 at 9:23 Comment(0)

OSX/Linux

Linux

Windows

From Source (Universal)

In the terminal/command-line:

or else if you want to use pycharm IDE to install a package:

Python Common installation issues

These commands are also useful if Homebrew screws up your path on macOS.

Multiple versions of Python installed in parallel?

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