python-slack-sdk: ImportError: No module named slackclient

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Description

Reproducible in:

This is reproducible in the sample project. python-slackclient version: Up-to-date Python Version:2.7 OS Version: 10.12.4 (16E195)

Steps to reproduce:

Expected result:

Run slackclient

Actual result:

told me ImportError: No module named slackclient

Attachments:

from slackclient import SlackClient
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
import requests
import re

I just import the required package but it told me not found slackclient I tried install and uninstall and then re-install but not working Mac system version : 10.12.4 (16E195)

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments: 19 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

If you look in the folder where all of your packages are you can see the slackclient actually installed a folder called slackbot and not slackclient. If you do from slackbot.slackclient import SlackClient it should resolve the issue

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kleoken on Jun 8, 2017

@NathanSepulveda 👋 I may be able to help! ⛑ It seems like you’re attempting to use the name slackclient in your import statement. While you install the package slackclient, the actual module name is slack! For example:

import slack

# or:

from slack import WebClient

Let me know if that does/doesn’t work. 😊

+25

clavin on Aug 5, 2019

@NathanSepulveda Oh, it seems you’re using the old version of the package now. That is, for some reason you have v1 installed. In v1, the module was also named slackclient and featured a class named SlackClient. In v2, the module name changed to slack, (but the package is still named slackclient) and the client was split into WebClient and RtmClient.

Just to be clear as crystal, v2 of this package is meant to be installed as slackclient but used as slack. That is, you could do (kind of^[1]):

$ pip3 install slackclient

And then this code would work:

import slack      # not slackclient!

The names are different depending on where you use it, but point to the same thing. Sorry about that confusion 😕. Even though you install a package named slackclient, you import a module named slack… in v2.

It looks like you had v2 installed, but were trying to import it with the wrong name. Somehow, you installed v1 of this package and are using that now.

How do I upgrade?

Take a peek at this solution I wrote for upgrading your package install to v2. After upgrading your slackclient package to v2, you’ll be able to import slack and use the WebClient.

Notes

[1]: Only applies to fresh installs. If you try to pip3 install a package you have installed, pip3 will skip it, even if it’s outdated.

+19

clavin on Aug 5, 2019

@GFBryson the pip command you are using sounds like it is installing to a different interpreter than you are importing from. try installing with python -m pip install slackclient or python3 -m pip install slackclient

cgoldberg on Feb 10, 2018

It may have showing error because of version dependency install required version like $ pip install slackclient==1.3.2 check with these kinds, Thanks Anyways

Chethu7781 on Aug 5, 2021

Make following changes from slack import WebClient slack_client=WebClient(your_token)

saurabh896 on Dec 8, 2019

Make following changes from slack import WebClient slack_client=WebClient(your_token)

it works !! Thanks

dinesh-shankar on May 19, 2020

So I’ve installed slackclient with the pip command listed above and python still can’t find it… I’m super confused as to why. if I use the pip command again it says all the requirements are already resolved. Any ideas?

GFBryson on Feb 10, 2018

@clavin Thanks for the help and thorough explanation!

NathanSepulveda on Aug 6, 2019