py-html-table 0.0.4

Python library to extract data from HTML Tables with rowspan

py-html-table Package

This is a simple package which uses beautifulSoup to extract HTML Table data along which has rowspan.

Installation

pip install 'beautifulsoup4==4.5.3'
pip install py_html_table

Declare

import py_html_table

Parameters

Parameter	Meaning	Sample Values
table	python variable containing html code of table	any variable name
col	Total No.of columns in the table. Starts from 1	5
begin	No.of rows to begin scrapping. Starts from 0	2
output	Type of output that you need	list (or) dataframe (or) csv

NOTE: All variable names has to be provided as input to the package

Usage Example

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests_html
import lxml.html as lh
import py_html_table.py_html_table as pyht

url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States'
session = requests_html.HTMLSession()
r = session.get(url)
content = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml')
all_tables = content.select(".wikitable")
table = all_tables[0]
col = 9
begin = 2
output = 'dataframe'
raw = 'N'
py_html_table.extract(table,begin,col,output,raw)