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November 6, 2018 19:03
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Download a wikipedia table as a .json file. Requires jquery and artoo.
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function tableToJson(table) { | |
var data = []; | |
// first row needs to be headers | |
var headers = []; | |
for (var i=0; i<table.rows[0].cells.length; i++) { | |
headers[i] = table.rows[0].cells[i].innerHTML.toLowerCase().replace(/ /gi,''); | |
} | |
// go through cells | |
for (var i=1; i<table.rows.length; i++) { | |
var tableRow = table.rows[i]; | |
var rowData = {}; | |
for (var j=0; j<tableRow.cells.length; j++) { | |
rowData[ headers[j] ] = tableRow.cells[j].innerText; | |
} | |
data.push(rowData); | |
} | |
return data; | |
} | |
var data = {}; | |
$("table.wikitable").each(function(i,table){ | |
var json = tableToJson(table); | |
$.each(json, function(i,row){ | |
if(data[row.name]){ | |
$.extend(data[row.name] || {}, row); | |
}else{ | |
data[row.name] = row; | |
} | |
}) | |
}) | |
artoo.saveCsv($.map(data, function(e){return e})) | |
// tableToJson() |
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