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Beautiful Soup: Scraping Data from HTML Table

Explore how to scrape data from HTML tables using Beautiful Soup in Python. This lesson helps you understand the structure of HTML tables, locate relevant tags, and extract data cleanly to store in a pandas DataFrame. You will gain hands-on skills to acquire web data by targeting table elements and processing them for analysis.

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Table in HTML

We will scrape data out of an HTML table in the coming exercise. Before jumping to that, let’s take a look at how tables are constructed in HTML. Below is the markup for constructing a table in HTML.

HTML
<table class="my-table" style="width:100%">
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <th>Firstname</th>
         <th>Lastname</th>
         <th>Age</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Jill</td>
         <td>Smith</td>
         <td>50</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Eve</td>
         <td>Jackson</td>
         <td>94</td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</table>

  • It starts with the <table> tag. This tag has its class and other properties, which are helpful in scraping.

  • A table’s header row or column names are usually present inside the first <tr>tag. They are present further inside the <th> tag. ...