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Start your free trialMichael Poehner
4,714 PointsHTML parser
I am trying to run a simple BeautifulSoup script I get the following error from the following code: (Jupyter Notebook)
from urllib.request import urlopen from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/index.html') soup = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), 'html-parser')
print(soup)
Error: FeatureNotFound Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-13-c6a03e259650> in <module>() 3 4 html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/index.html') ----> 5 soup = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), 'html-parser') 6 7 print(soup)
/home/migs/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bs4/init.py in init(self, markup, features, builder, parse_only, from_encoding, exclude_encodings, **kwargs) 163 "Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you " 164 "requested: %s. Do you need to install a parser library?" --> 165 % ",".join(features)) 166 builder = builder_class() 167 if not (original_features == builder.NAME or
FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: html-parser. Do you need to install a parser library?
1 Answer
Dvontre Coleman
13,075 PointsI think you are looking for "html.parser" with a period instead of the hyphen.
html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/index.html')
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), html.parser)
print(soup)