How to properly download and install packages in Go?

Question

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong, I look up steps online what to do and they all tell me to just go to CMD, type in go get ___ and then just import the github link into my file but I constantly get the could not import error in VS Code.

I am trying to parse some HTML code that I get from a response and I need the "golang.org/x/net/html" to be able to do things. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can use go modules to manage dependencies.

First you initialize your module with go mod init ProjectName . Then when you build your project with go build it will find and download missing packages to module cache directory which is ~/go/pkg/mod .

You can use go mod tidy also.

For more information: Go Modules