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Convert HTML Table Into CSV File in Python

This document provides a Python code example to convert an HTML table to a CSV file. It uses the BeautifulSoup and Pandas modules to parse the HTML, extract the table data and header into lists, then converts it into a Pandas DataFrame and exports to a CSV file. The code gets the header row, loops through each table row extracting the text from each cell into a sublist, appends it to a master list of rows, then loads this into a DataFrame and saves as CSV.

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Convert HTML Table Into CSV File in Python

This document provides a Python code example to convert an HTML table to a CSV file. It uses the BeautifulSoup and Pandas modules to parse the HTML, extract the table data and header into lists, then converts it into a Pandas DataFrame and exports to a CSV file. The code gets the header row, loops through each table row extracting the text from each cell into a sublist, appends it to a master list of rows, then loads this into a DataFrame and saves as CSV.

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Convert HTML table into CSV file in python

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April 2, 2020

Convert HTML table into CSV file in python

Last Updated : 21 Apr, 2020

CSV file is a Comma Separated Value file that uses a comma to separate values. CSV
file is a useful thing in today’s world when we are talking about machine learning, data
handling, and data visualization. In this article, we will discuss how to convert an HTML
table into a CSV file.

Converting HTML Table into CSV file in Python


Example: Suppose HTML file looks like,

HTML table can be converted to CSV file using BeautifulSoup and Pandas module of
Python. These modules do not comes built-in with Python. To install them type the below
command in the terminal.

pip install BeautifulSoup


pip install pandas

Python3 Code for converting the HTML table into CSV file

# Importing the required modules

import os

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import sys

import pandas as pd

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

path = 'html.html'

# empty list

data = []

# for getting the header from

# the HTML file

list_header = []

soup = BeautifulSoup( open (path), 'html.parser' )

header = soup.find_all( "table" )[ 0 ].find( "tr" )

for items in header:

try :

list_header.append(items.get_text())

except :

continue

# for getting the data

HTML_data = soup.find_all( "table" )[ 0 ].find_all( "tr" )


[ 1 :]

for element in HTML_data:

sub_data = []

for sub_element in element:

try :

sub_data.append(sub_element.get_text())

except :

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continue

data.append(sub_data)

# Storing the data into Pandas

# DataFrame

dataFrame = pd.DataFrame(data = data, columns = list_header)

# Converting Pandas DataFrame

# into CSV file

dataFrame.to_csv( 'Geeks.csv' )

Output:

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