Getting this error while installing the 'request' module of Python

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Error message:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://us-python.pkg.dev/colab-wheels/public/simple/
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement request (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for request

!pip install request
!pip install html5lib
!pip install bs4

This can't be the first question of this kind. Where is the canonical duplicate? — Peter Mortensen
– Peter Mortensen, Commented Jun 9, 2023 at 12:38
A candidate: Python error when attempting to install 'request' package using pip. For example, from an answer: "There is a typo in the article." and "at some point in time at least the request (without the s at the end) package contained some malware:" — Peter Mortensen
– Peter Mortensen, Commented Jun 9, 2023 at 12:39
Does this answer your question? Python error when attempting to install 'request' package using pip — Peter Mortensen
– Peter Mortensen, Commented Jun 9, 2023 at 12:40
There is a real price to be paid for typos. Related: Several malicious typosquatted Python libraries found on PyPI repository — Peter Mortensen
– Peter Mortensen, Commented Jun 9, 2023 at 12:46
More duplicates and similar: No matching distribution found for multiple packages ("You probably unintentionally had request instead of requests in your requirements.txt file."), PyCharm v4.5 cannot import name 'request', and PIP Install request RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in Python 2.7 ("Do you actually mean to install request and not requests?") — Peter Mortensen
– Peter Mortensen, Commented Jun 9, 2023 at 13:17

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-09 12:33:25Z

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This is Requests (with an "s"), hence: pip install requests should work.

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Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-09 12:37:10Z

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Use:

python -m pip install requests

Maybe you mean requests and not request!

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Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-02 16:59:19Z

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This module name is requests so you should type pip install requests.

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