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How to install TA-Lib in Google Colab?

I'm trying to install the TA-Lib package in Google Colab but without success.

I tried this guide and also Installing TA-Lib on python x64.

I get this error:

import platform
print (platform.architecture())

import sys
print(sys.version)

!pip install C:/ta-lib/TA_Lib-0.4.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

#########
('64bit', '')
3.6.3 (default, Oct  3 2017, 21:45:48) 
[GCC 7.2.0]
 Requirement 'C:/ta-lib/TA_Lib-0.4.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl' looks like a 
  filename, but the file does not exist
  TA_Lib-0.4.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this 
  platform.
Solution

  • Have you tried following instructions from here?

    https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib

    And change any sudo apt-get to just !apt. Any cd to %cd

    Update: try this

    !wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
!tar -xzvf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
%cd ta-lib
!./configure --prefix=/usr
!make
!make install
!pip install Ta-Lib
import talib

    Update(may 2020): for binary install (no compile)

    url = 'https://launchpad.net/~mario-mariomedina/+archive/ubuntu/talib/+files'
ext = '0.4.0-oneiric1_amd64.deb -qO'
!wget $url/libta-lib0_$ext libta.deb
!wget $url/ta-lib0-dev_$ext ta.deb
!dpkg -i libta.deb ta.deb
!pip install ta-lib
import talib

    Update(may 2021): even faster

    url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/libta-lib/0.4.0/download/linux-64/libta-lib-0.4.0-h516909a_0.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ lib --strip-components=1
url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ta-lib/0.4.19/download/linux-64/ta-lib-0.4.19-py37ha21ca33_2.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/ lib/python3.7/site-packages/talib --strip-components=3
import talib

    Update (dec 2021): from @roborative, this is easiest to remember and take 3.8s (above is 1.2s)

    !pip install talib-binary

    Update (mar 2023): Colab is now Python 3.9, talib-binary is not updated yet, so revert to conda extraction

    url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/libta-lib/0.4.0/download/linux-64/libta-lib-0.4.0-h166bdaf_1.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ lib --strip-components=1
url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ta-lib/0.4.19/download/linux-64/ta-lib-0.4.19-py39hd257fcd_4.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/ lib/python3.9/site-packages/talib --strip-components=3
import talib

    Update (apr 2023): Colab is now Python 3.10

    url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/libta-lib/0.4.0/download/linux-64/libta-lib-0.4.0-h166bdaf_1.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ lib --strip-components=1
url = 'https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ta-lib/0.4.19/download/linux-64/ta-lib-0.4.19-py310hde88566_4.tar.bz2'
!curl -L $url | tar xj -C /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ lib/python3.10/site-packages/talib --strip-components=3
import talib