Error installing BeautifulSoup

Question

I am trying to install BeautifulSoup using the following command:

py -m pip install -U pip BeautifulSoup

But I am getting this error:

Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d7/41/34dd96bd33958e52cb4da2f1bf0818e396514fd4f4725a79199564cd0c20/pip-19.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 201kB/s
Collecting BeautifulSoup
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1e/ee/295988deca1a5a7accd783d0dfe14524867e31abb05b6c0eeceee49c759d/BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-tyxu48kn\BeautifulSoup\setup.py", line 22
        print "Unit tests have failed!"
                                      ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Unit tests have failed!")?

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-tyxu48kn\BeautifulSoup\

Answer 1

You can use a simple command to install BeautifulSoup:

pip install beautifulsoup4