How to fix python import requests not found

Question : I'm trying to execute a Python script but getting an Import Requests module error . How can I fix ?

Answer: The Python Requests module does not come with the default Python installation therefore you will need to download and install . You can do that via the pip command. Here is an example of how to use pip and install the python Requests module . pip is the Python package installer which allows you to install Python packages . If you  haven't added pip to the %PATH% then you'll need to locate it on the path where you installed Python 

python -m pip install requests

You may find when executing this command line - that you get a warning\error message similar to : SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate 

As a temporary workaround you can use the --trusted host method to overcome the issue . 

pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host pypi.python.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org requests

You should now see a different response on the screen , similar to : 

Collecting requests
Downloading requests-2.27.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (63 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 63 kB 1.5 MB/s
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17
Downloading certifi-2021.10.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (149 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 149 kB 1.1 MB/s
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5
Downloading idna-3.3-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 61 kB 990 kB/s
Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1
Downloading urllib3-1.26.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (138 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 138 kB 1.3 MB/s
Collecting charset-normalizer~=2.0.0
Downloading charset_normalizer-2.0.12-py3-none-any.whl (39 kB)