BeautifulSoup Installation: pip Configuration Guide

Stuck on the first step of installing BeautifulSoup? Fix the pip networking problem first

Many brothers in the learning crawler, the first roadblock is not the code is not written correctly, but even load the package can not be loaded. For example, pip installed BeautifulSoup often stuck in the download link, looking at the progress bar half a day does not move, anxious to smash the keyboard. At this timeproxy IPIt'll help you break the ice - especially with our ipipgo premium proxy service, which can make download speeds take off straight away.

 As a chestnut, the correct posture for loading libraries with proxies
pip install beautifulsoup4 --proxy=http://用户名:密码@ipipgo proxy address:port

Note here to ipipgo background to the account password to fill in, do not directly copy my example ha. Previously, a student confused the letter l and the number 1 in the password, and only after half an hour of tossing and turning did he realize the problem.

Hands on teaching you to match pip proxies

For Windows users, hold down shift+right-click and select "Open Powershell here" and enter this command:

pip config set global.proxy http://你的ipipgo账号:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:9021

Mac/Linux users need to add sudo privileges, remember to enter a command toRestart the command line windowOnly then will it take effect. There is a common pit is to open the system proxy and pip proxy, the result of the two proxy conflict, this time to turn off the system proxy on the line.

Why do I have to use a proxy IP?

Three hardcore reasons:

Especially with ipipgo.Dynamic Residential AgentsThe IP pool is updated every day with 500,000+ addresses, which is much less likely to be recognized than ordinary server room proxies. Last time there is a data capture team, with ordinary proxy was blocked more than 20 IP, changed to ipipgo after a week have no further problems.

Record of actual pitfalls

Encountered the most bizarre situation is installed bs4 but import error, and later found that it is installed at the same time beautifulsoup and beautifulsoup4 two versions. Solution:

pip uninstall beautifulsoup
pip install --upgrade beautifulsoup4

If an SSL certificate error is reported, follow the command with-trusted-host pypi.org -trusted-host files.pythonhosted.orgIt's all about experience with ipipgo proxies. This is all the real-world experience accumulated when using the ipipgo proxy, online tutorials will not tell you these details.

Frequently Asked Questions QA

Q：Download still fails even if the agent is paired?
A: First ping the proxy address pass or fail, and then check the account password has no special symbols need to be escaped

Q: How do I get a company intranet?
A：Contact ipipgo customer service to exclusive tunnel configuration, support socks5 and http dual protocols

Q: Do free proxies work?
A: short-term test can make do, long-term use or have to ipipgo this kind of paid service. Nine out of ten free proxies are unstable, and the remaining one may be stealing data.

As a final reminder, crawler projects should always use theHigh Stash AgentsThe proxy header information of ipipgo will not expose X-Forwarded-For these fields, and it is effective. Once I forgot to hang the proxy directly run scripts, the results of the company IP directly by the target site black, blood lesson ah!