Python BDD Behave allure reports failing with format=allure_behave.formatter:AllureFormatter is unknown

Question

I have installed allure 2.8.17. It is on a pipenv environment. When I am running the below command in terminal:

behave -f allure_behave.formatter:AllureFormatter -o reports/

It is failing with the below error

usage: behave [options] [ [DIR|FILE|FILE:LINE] ]+
behave: error: format=allure_behave.formatter:AllureFormatter is unknown
(behave) sharathkrishnan@sharaths-mbp features % 

Answer 1

I think you are missing allure-behave: pip install allure-behave ?

Answer 2

you need to install using pip install allure-behave and then run the above command

Answer 3

This also commonly happens when you point the file path with a typo. Mostly case sensitive problems like./Reports instead of./reports