ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'newspaper'

The library is not installed in the running Python. The PyPI name is newspaper3k but the import is newspaper. Run python -m pip install newspaper3k and from newspaper import Article works.

The error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'newspaper'

Fix it

1. Install newspaper3k

python -m pip install newspaper3k

Expected: Successfully installed newspaper3k-... with its dependencies.

1. Confirm

python -c "from newspaper import Article; print('ok')"

Expected: prints ok.

When this applies

• any from newspaper import ... fails naming newspaper
• a fresh env for an article-extraction script

When it does NOT apply

• ImportError: No module named 'newspaper3k' means you wrote import newspaper3k, which is wrong
• cannot import name 'Article' from 'newspaper' with newspaper installed is the shadowing problem

Compatibility

newspaper3k 0.9.x. Python 3.8+. Note the project is lightly maintained; lxml/nltk dependency friction on new Pythons is common.

Why it happens

The distribution name (newspaper3k) and the import name (newspaper) differ, a legacy of the Python-2 newspaper package. People who pip install newspaper get the dead Python-2 package or nothing, and people who never install get this ModuleNotFoundError.

Edge cases

• Do NOT pip install newspaper. That is the abandoned Python 2 package. The maintained one is newspaper3k.
• newspaper3k pulls nltk data on first use. If Article building fails later on missing tokenizers, that is a data download step, not this error.