table2csv

Simple script for downloading html tables as csv.

Installation

pip install -U table2csv

Usage

table2csv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions > dump.txt

Features

• 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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