How to install a parser library for python

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I am getting:

Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: parser.html. Do you need to install a parser library?

when ever I try to parse my page. Please for help for I am still not very good at python.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

response = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/questions")
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,"parser.html")
questions = soup.select(".question-summary")

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '19 at 13:00

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Use 'html.parser' instead of 'parser.html'. This may work.

If not, try: "html5lib"

answered Aug 08 '19 at 13:00

Anthony R

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '19 at 13:01

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The parser should be "html.parser" and not "parser.html"

Refer to the beautiful soup documentation for details.

answered Aug 08 '19 at 13:01

koushikmln

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Please may you give the way to get only the text of questions[0] – Ladoken Aug 08 '19 at 17:05

How to install a parser library for python

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