HTML Table Extractor is a python library that uses Beautiful Soup to extract data from complicated and messy html table
- Repository: https://github.com/yuanxu-li/html-table-extractor
- Issues: https://github.com/yuanxu-li/html-table-extractor/issues
pip install 'beautifulsoup4==4.5.3' pip install html-table-extractor| 1 | 2 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor table_doc = """ <table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr></table> """ extractor = Extractor(table_doc) extractor.parse() extractor.return_list()It will print out:
[[u'1', u'2'], [u'3', u'4']]| 1 | 2 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor table_doc = """ <table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr></table> """ extractor = Extractor(table_doc, transformer=int) extractor.parse() extractor.return_list()It will print out:
[[1, 2], [3, 4]]| 1 | 2 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor from bs4 import BeautifulSoup table_doc = """ <html><table id='wanted'><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr></table><table id='unwanted'><tr><td>not wanted</td></tr></table></html> """ soup = BeautifulSoup(table_doc, 'html.parser') extractor = Extractor(soup, id_='wanted') extractor.parse() extractor.return_list()It will print out:
[[u'1', u'2'], [u'3', u'4']]| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor table_doc = """ <table> <tr> <td rowspan=2>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3>5</td> </tr> </table> """ extractor = Extractor(table_doc) extractor.parse() extractor.return_list()It will print out:
[[u'1', u'2', u'3'], [u'1', u'4', u'4'], [u'5', u'5', u'5']]| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor table_doc = """ <table> <tr> <td rowspan=2>1</td> <td>2</td> <td rowspan=3>3</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2>5</td> </tr> </table> """ extractor = Extractor(table_doc) extractor.parse() extractor.return_list()It will print out:
[[u'1', u'2', u'3'], [u'1', u'4', u'3'], [u'5', u'5', u'3']]| 1 | 2 |
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from html_table_extractor.extractor import Extractor table_doc = """ <table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr></table> """ extractor = Extractor(table_doc).parse() extractor.write_to_csv(path='.')It will write to a given path and create a new csv file called output.csv:
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How to upload the package to pypi (for the reference of the owner)
- python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
- twine upload dist/* --verbose