Using Python and BeautifulSoup (saved webpage source codes into a local file)

Question

I am using Python 2.7 + BeautifulSoup 4.3.2.

I am trying to use Python and BeautifulSoup to pick up information on a webpage. Because the webpage is in the company w

Answer 1

You can try using lxml parser also. Here is an example for your html data.

from lxml.html import fromstring
import lxml.html as PARSER

data = open('example.html').read()
root = PARSER.fromstring(data)

for ele in root.getiterator():
    if ele.tag == "td":
        print ele.text_content()

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