How to Install `textblob` in Python

v0.20.0 General Purpose Python >=3.10

Simple, Pythonic text processing. Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase parsing, and more.

Install pip install textblob

What is textblob?

Simple, Pythonic text processing. Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase parsing, and more.

is a Python library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, and more.

text = """ The titular threat of The Blob has always struck me as the ultimate movie monster: an insatiably hungry, amoeba-like mass able to penetrate virtually any safeguard, capable of--as a doomed doctor chillingly describes it--"assimilating flesh on contact. Snide comparisons to gelatin be damned, it's a concept with the most devastating of potential consequences, not unlike the grey goo scenario proposed by technological theorists fearful of artificial intelligence run rampant. """

blob = TextBlob(text) blob.tags # [('The', 'DT'), ('titular', 'JJ'), # ('threat', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ...]

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Quick Start

Minimal example to get started with textblob:

import textblob

print(textblob.__version__)

Installation

pip (standard)

pip install textblob

Virtual environment (recommended)

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install textblob

pip3

pip3 install textblob

conda

conda install -c conda-forge textblob

Poetry

poetry add textblob

Dependencies

Installing textblob will also install these packages:

nltk

Verify the Installation

After installing, confirm the package is available:

python -c "import textblob; print(textblob.__version__)"

If this prints a version number, installation succeeded. If you see a ModuleNotFoundError, see the errors section below.

Installation Errors

Common errors when installing textblob with pip.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'textblob'

Cause: The package is not installed in the current Python environment.

Fix: Run pip install textblob. If using a virtual environment, ensure it is activated first.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'textblob' (installed but still failing)

Cause: pip installed the package into a different Python than the one running your script.

Fix: Use python -m pip install textblob to install into the interpreter you are running.

ImportError: cannot import name 'X' from 'textblob'

Cause: The function or class does not exist in the installed version.

Fix: Check the version with pip show textblob and upgrade with pip install --upgrade textblob.

pip: command not found

Cause: pip is not in PATH or Python was not added to PATH during installation.

Fix: Try python -m pip install textblob. On macOS/Linux try pip3.

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Cause: No write access to the system Python package directory.

Fix: Use a virtual environment, or add --user: pip install --user textblob

SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

Cause: pip cannot verify PyPI's SSL certificate — common behind corporate proxies.

Fix: Try: pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org textblob

Recent Releases

Version	Released
`0.20.0` latest	2026-04-01
`0.19.0`	2025-01-13
`0.18.0`	2024-02-15
`0.18.0.post0`	2024-02-15
`0.17.0`	2021-10-22

Full release history on PyPI →

Manage textblob

Upgrade to latest version

pip install --upgrade textblob

Install a specific version

pip install textblob==0.20.0

Uninstall

pip uninstall textblob

Check what is installed

pip show textblob

Last updated: 2026-04-11 • Data from PyPI

How to Install textblob in Python