Extract data from an HTML table and store results to a csv file.
Project description
Simple script for downloading html tables as csv.
Installation
pip install -U table2csvUsage
table2csv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions > dump.txtFeatures
accepts a URL
Identifies all the tables
Merges tables that share same structure (e.g. same column headers get merged)
Figures out which table is the biggest
extracts text
extracts links
TODO
add the ability to specify which table on the page you would like to download (not just the biggest one)
add support for columns that do not use proper <th> tags [DONE] tags for headers (i.e. imperfect html tables)]
detect the data types found within each column
add support for tables with hierarchical indices on the rows and/or columns
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