Use PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets on Windows: is it possible?

Question

I am trying to build an app in PyQt5 (version 5.6+) in Python 3.6. It contains a web browser, using QtWebEngineWidgets. It works fine on Mac, however, there are problems on Windows. When I run the code on Windows and import the module:

from PyQt5 import QtWebEngineWidgets

I get the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'QtWebEngineWidgets'

Now, reading some forums it looks like PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets is not available for Windows, yet. Is it correct? How can I have a web browser window, then?

I found online I could use QtWebKit, but according to here it seems QtWebKit was removed in Qt5.6. So what? Do I have to downgrade PyQt version?

I can't go under 5.6 in Python 3.6 anyway. Do I have to change Python version as well?

Would you explain how you installed pyqt5, have you tried installing a newer version of pyqt5 ?. — eyllanesc, Aug 09 '17 at 20:18
Newer version than the newest version (5.9)? That's hard... I specified 5.6+, meaning that I tried all of them starting from 5.6 — Carlo Bianchi, Aug 09 '17 at 20:20

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 06 '19 at 08:47

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you can try one of these solution ,

install old version :

pip install PyQt5==5.11.3

or install :

pip install PyQtWebEngine

edited Apr 06 '19 at 08:47

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answered Apr 06 '19 at 08:44

hassanzadeh.sd

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 09:47

u can download PyQt5.6 from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt5/PyQt-5.6

QtWebKit got deprecated upstream in Qt 5.5 and removed in 5.6. Beacuse The QtWebEngineWidgets module is better than QtWebkit.

The example directory has many examples about QtWebEngineWidgets

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '21 at 16:06

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Yes, its possible to use QtWebEngineWidgets on Windows.

answered Jul 08 '21 at 16:06

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Use PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets on Windows: is it possible?

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