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Web Scraping with Python (res)
Web Scraping with Python (res)
Ways to Scrape Table
There are a lot of different ways to scrap tables. The method depends on the structure of the table.
You can apply string methods. As you remember, the function find_all()
looks through a tag’s descendants and retrieves all descendants that match the parameter. If we apply it to the tag <tr>
the result will be a list of contents of each <tr>
tag.
rows = html.find_all('tr')
You can also do it using XPath
:
Then we can clean the data and convert it to the DataFrame
. This method can be useful if the table has a complex and confusing structure.