title: IB API not installing properly on Mac
body: <p>So I'm trying to use the IB API wrapper from <a href="https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and I try running the first line   </p>
  
  <pre><code>from ib_insync import * 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>Traceback (most recent call last):</code>
   <code>File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ib_insync/__init__.py", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;</code>
  <code>import ibapi</code>
  <code>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ibapi'</code></p>
  
  <p><code>During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:</code></p>
  
  <p><code>Traceback (most recent call last):</code>
   <code>File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;</code>
   <code>File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ib_insync/__init__.py", line 13, in &lt;module&gt;</code>
     <code>'IB API from http://interactivebrokers.github.io is required')</code>
  <code>RuntimeError: IB API from http://interactivebrokers.github.io is required</code></p>
  
  <p>but I've downloaded the IB API from the IB <a href="http://interactivebrokers.github.io/#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">github</a> (had to use The Unarchiver to unzip) and saved it on my desktop. As far as I can tell there's no pip3 command I can use to install it so I'm not sure what else I can do to install the IB API. I've allowed ticked all the boxes for the API in TWS. I'm not sure why it's not installing properly? </p>
  
  <p>It seems to be the same issue found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48485442/encounter-error-ib-api-required-when-ib-api-is-installed">here</a> but mine is for macosx. I've tried running the commands from README.md and they don't work. It just says no such directory exists. </p>