ImportError: No module named 'readability'

Neither readability package is installed. Run python -m pip install readability-lxml (the real article extractor). Make sure you do NOT install the unrelated bare readability package, or you will trade this error for the cannot import name 'Document' one.

The error

ImportError: No module named 'readability'

Fix it

1. Install readability-lxml

python -m pip install readability-lxml

Expected: Successfully installed readability-lxml-....

1. Confirm

python -c "from readability import Document; print('ok')"

Expected: prints ok.

When this applies

• the error is No module named 'readability' (nothing installed)
• a fresh env for an article-extraction script

When it does NOT apply

• cannot import name 'Document' from 'readability' means the WRONG package is installed
• partially initialized module means your own file shadows it

Compatibility

readability-lxml 0.8.x. (On Python 2 this printed as ImportError; on Python 3.6+ the same situation usually prints ModuleNotFoundError. Both wordings mean the same missing install.)

Why it happens

The package was never installed into the active interpreter. The extra trap here is installing the wrong PyPI name afterward, so the fix spells out readability-lxml explicitly.

Edge cases

• readability-lxml needs lxml. If the install succeeds but the import then fails on lxml, fix lxml separately.