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JustAnotherArchivist / snscrape

A social networking service scraper in Python
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Help with installation - libxml2 and libxslt #983

Closed BluesFanUK closed 1 year ago

BluesFanUK commented 1 year ago

The introduction casually glazes over this, one of the dependencies is reliant on this - i've no idea where to even begin with getting those.

I'm on Python 3.9.14, Windows 10 64bit. I've tried to install those two via Pip but it says the following: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement libxslt (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for libxslt

I'm guessing I need to manually obtain these somewhere?

Thanks

JustAnotherArchivist commented 1 year ago

Yeah, this kind of thing is awful on Windows. I can't provide support for it. Please refer to lxml's installation guide for some information; apparently there are binary builds of lxml for Windows which include libxml2 and libxslt. Possibly, those are the builds you get from PyPI.

(In case it wasn't obvious: these are not Python packages, you can't install them with pip or similar. That's also why it's mentioned in the readme, since you need to obtain those libraries in a different way, usually through your package manager on any Unixoid system that isn't macOS.)