BeautifulSoup error

**edit4ever** · November 23, 2016 at 4:21 PM

I working on new features in my zap2xml addon - but am having trouble getting BeautifulSoup to be recognized. I have added the following to the addon.xml:

And can confirm the dependency installed and is running.

I added the following to my addon script:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

But get the follwoing error when trying to run the script:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ImportError: No module named bs4

I'm not sure what is wrong - this is running on a modified drieschel/kszaq amlogic build - so maybe something is different in the amlogic builds? Thanks for any thoughts!

**lrusak** · November 23, 2016 at 6:42 PM Official Post

are you calling the add-on from within kodi? because kodi will append the python path automatically, if not you need to append the python path manuall.

**edit4ever** · November 23, 2016 at 6:52 PM

It's a grabber for tvheadend. I haven't updated the git with the changes I'm testing - but this is the addon:

GitHub - edit4ever/script.module.zap2xml

Do I append the path in the zap2xml.py file? The tv_grab_zap2xml file will call the python file when the grabber runs. The python script runs fine, but now that I'm testing the addition of BeautifulSoup I receive the error.

**lrusak** · November 23, 2016 at 6:54 PM Official Post

yes, where ever you are importing bs4

Code

import sys
sys.path.append('/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup4/lib')

**edit4ever** · November 23, 2016 at 8:32 PM

Quote from lrusak
yes, where ever you are importing bs4
Code
import sys
sys.path.append('/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup4/lib')

Thank you! That makes sense and worked.

**lrusak** · November 23, 2016 at 10:58 PM Official Post

if you need something more portable you can do

Python

try:
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.path.append('/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup4/lib')
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup