Wheels failed to build while pip installing about scrape-google-scholar-py

[rohanjha123]

Thanks for reaching out @dimitryzub! The issue comes from the following line: Permission denied: '/Users/rohanjha/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/52/42'. In my Mac, there was a directory in /Users/rohanjha/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/52, but there was no /42 subdirectory. Furthermore, the package scrape-google-scholar-py did not have permission to create this subdirectory inside the wheels directory of my Mac. So, I manually went inside the wheels directory, changed the system permissions to allow me to edit the wheels directory and manually created the /42 subdirectory. The pip install worked after that!

[rohanjha123]

Ah, I was able to figure it out by directly editing my wheels folder, apologies for wasting your time!

[rohanjha123]

I installed them globally! Thanks for the suggestions

[dimitryzub]

Ah, I was able to figure it out by directly editing my wheels folder, apologies for wasting your time!

Hi @rohanjha123, thank you for opening this issue! Could you explain in more detail how you fixed it? I don't have access to Mac and would like to add your solution to README for Mac users and tag you as a co-author in the commit.

What do you think? 🙂

[dimitryzub]

@rohanjha123 Thank you for your thoughts 🙂

Could you tell if you used virtual environment when installing package for the first time? In other words, did you installed it globally or locally to virtual env?

I guess the CLI way of solving your issue could be by using:

sudo chmod -R a+w /Users/rohanjha/Library/Caches/pip/wheels

which will may grant write permission to all users for the specified directory and its contents.

So CLI commands could be like so:

$ python3.11 -m venv env # or just python3
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install scrape-google-scholar-py

# if error above:
$ sudo chmod -R a+w /Users/rohanjha/Library/Caches/pip/wheels
$ pip install scrape-google-scholar-py

Just wanted to share a few thoughts on that. Not really sure what might caused that issue.