Installing pip using command prompt raises error

Question

I am trying to download BeautifulSoup for Python. However, when I use this in command prompt;

pip install beautifulsoup4

I receive this error;

'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Am I doing this wrong? Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I believe using the command

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

would be the preferred method. I had similar problems before. If that doesn't work i'd be glad to help further.

Also a quick search returned 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command which may be of more use.

Answer 2

Check if Python is installed. If it's not installed, goto Python and Get the Latest Version. If you want to install a older version, I'd prefer Python 3.7.5 or Python 3.6.8

If Python is already installed, Re-Install it and try again.

Answer 3

Alright so I found a fix:

1. Go to the Python installer
2. Click 'modify'
3. Click 'next'
4. Check 'Add Python to environment variables'
5. Click 'install'

I hope this works for anyone else.

Answer 4

You may want to verify which version of Python you have running. I had a similar issue (I'm using Mac) and the fix was using "pip3" in place of "pip" for the commands.

example: pip3 intall (module)

Not sure if this will help, but it helped me ha ha.