Extracting Tables from a Webpage with Pandas in Python
This is a template exploring how one can extract the contents of tables on websites straight to a Pandas data frame. This is done through Pandas itself, so there are no additional libraries required. Some other related topics you might be interested in are, Incorporating Commonly Used HTML Tags in Python, Searching by Attributes with Beautiful Soup in Python is, Extracting HTML attributes using BeautifulSoup in Python and Setting up Beautiful Soup and Choosing a Parser in Python.
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Who is it for
This is an open-access Python template that is going to be of help to Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Web developers, Data Engineers and anyone who is interested in learning the web-scraping of the popular pandas library.
How it can help you
Tables are a common format for displaying information. Being able to extract the table information without losing its structure is an important skill.