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I tried importing requests:

import requests

But I get an error:

ImportError: No module named requests

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    Did you install requests, using pip or easy_install?
    – Thomas Orozco
    Commented Jun 25, 2013 at 23:36
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    I get same issue, I installed via pip
    – David Crook
    Commented Aug 14, 2016 at 17:06
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    just to note, I only get the issue from within Spyder, but not the cmd prompt.
    – David Crook
    Commented Aug 14, 2016 at 17:07
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    I get the same result. pip3 reports "Requirement already satisfied:..."
    – Matt
    Commented Jul 8, 2018 at 16:14
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    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.
    – Sean Novak
    Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 11:47

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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 --reinstall install python-requests

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

--reinstall may fix this error, if package was already installed.

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.

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    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. (stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/…)
    – Chris
    Commented Aug 10, 2013 at 14:25
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    for centos: yum install python-requests
    – Erik Aronesty
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 18:47
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    On mac os x, if you have easy_install installed, you can also use: sudo easy_install -U requests
    – RobinCominotto
    Commented Mar 16, 2014 at 17:00
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    Note for posterity: for pip install requests to work (on a Mac) you need to use sudo
    – David Oneill
    Commented May 20, 2014 at 13:40
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    got it working on Mac OS X using: sudo pip3 install requests
    – herrera
    Commented May 3, 2018 at 21:52
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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

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    sudo pip3 install requests if you want it installed for all users on a machine, not just one user.
    – Adrian
    Commented Feb 13, 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

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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.

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  • Would you care to add a brief explanation (here) of why this works?
    – Thruston
    Commented Jan 3, 2020 at 14:01
  • Added extra comment for pip info.
    – ymutlu
    Commented Jan 4, 2020 at 19:09
  • I had to change the python to ~/anaconda3/envs/<env_name>/bin/python3 -m pip install requests `
    – sareem
    Commented Mar 20, 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

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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
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  • I am on Mint and am getting the same error even though it is installed.
    – DarthOpto
    Commented Sep 7, 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
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  • I tried this and it's still not working. How do I get it to work?
    – Lar
    Commented Jan 30, 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
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    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.
    – shjeff
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 14:07
  • 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.
    – John Pitts
    Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 14:17
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On Windows Open Command Line

pip3 install requests
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I had the same issue, so I copied the folder named "requests" from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests#downloadsrequests download to "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages". Now when you use: import requests, it should work fine.

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    Now I've got No module named urllib3 :)
    – Pavel Alexeev
    Commented Oct 14, 2018 at 15:38
  • @PavelAlexeev try executing this command before "pip install urllib3"
    – Karthik Vg
    Commented Apr 27, 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:

  1. go to setting from File in menu
  2. next go to Python interpreter
  3. click on pip
  4. search for requests package and install it
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    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.
    – smci
    Commented Jun 22, 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.
    – smci
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05
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    Please prove your point with the document 99%!!! or 85%!!! @smci
    – mamal
    Commented Jul 14, 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.
    – smci
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 10:15
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    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.
    – Eugene
    Commented Dec 8, 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.

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    I needed requests_ntlm, so had to run "conda config --add channels conda-forge" then "conda install -c anaconda requests_ntlm"
    – Zunair
    Commented May 31, 2019 at 19:30
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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
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  • The same issue here. I simply delete the folder venv and recreate it.
    – Ibanêz
    Commented Aug 30 at 11:30
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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?

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Try sudo apt-get install python-requests.

This worked for me.

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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
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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.

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

  1. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py

  2. sudo python2 get-pip.py

  3. python -m pip install requests

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    Number 3) you can also simply run pip install requests
    – panza
    Commented Aug 19, 2021 at 8:14
  • please avoid using sudo with the pip command if possible
    – ChumiestBucket
    Commented Jan 8, 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...

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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.

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    Gave that a try on oracle linux (basically RHEL) but didn't work. Posting so others can know about this result. Thanks though~
    – interestedparty333
    Commented Jan 19, 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.
    – ajsmart
    Commented Jan 20, 2018 at 16:07
  • 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. :)
    – interestedparty333
    Commented Jan 20, 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

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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.

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

pip install requests
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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.

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if you want request import on windows:

pip install request

then beautifulsoup4 for:

pip3 install beautifulsoup4
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    I think what you mean is "requests" not "request". There is no library named "request"
    – Ethan
    Commented Jul 16, 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

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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.

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  • Please do not link to youtube tutorials. They are stale and will go out of date, and are not necessarily available to everyone
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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
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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.

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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

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