Using Beautifulsoup In Cgi Without Installing

I am trying to build a simple scraper in Python, which will run on a Webserver via CGI. Basically it will return a value determined by a parameter passed to it in a URL. I need Be

Solution 1:

You are using a version of Python that doesn't yet support PEP 328 Relative Imports; e.g. Python 2.4 or older. BeautifulSoup 4 requires Python 2.7 or newer.

Presumably you cannot upgrade to a newer Python version. In that case you can try using BeautifulSoup 3; it'll have a few bugs and you'll be missing some features, but at least you can get past the syntax error.

However, I note that HelioHost does list Python 2.7 as supported.