How can I scrape an HTML table to CSV?

Question

The Problem

I use a tool at work that lets me do queries and get back HTML tables of info. I do not have any kind of back-end access to it.

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Answer 1

Two ways come to mind (especially for those of us that don't have Excel):

• Google Spreadsheets has an excellent importHTML function:
  • =importHTML("http://example.com/page/with/table", "table", index
  • Index starts at 1
  • I recommend a copy and paste values shortly after import
  • File -> Download as -> CSV
• Python's superb Pandas library has handy read_html and to_csv functions
  • Here's a basic Python3 script that prompts for the URL, which table at that URL, and a filename for the CSV.