EfrainOlivaresEv
EfrainOlivaresEv
/ table_writer.py
Created
July 29, 2020 17:27
— forked from AO8/table_writer.py
Convert an HTML table into a CSV file with Python and BeautifulSoup.
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| # Adapted from example in "Web Scraping with Python, 2nd Edition" by Ran Mitchell. | |
| import csv | |
| from urllib.request import urlopen | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| html = urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" | |
| "Comparison_of_text_editors") | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") | |
| table = soup.findAll("table", {"class":"wikitable"})[0] |