Python BeautifulSoup scrape tables

Question

I am trying to create a table scrape with BeautifulSoup. I wrote this Python code:

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

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Answer 1

The original link posted by OP is dead... but here's how you might scrape table data with gazpacho:

Step 1 - import Soup and download the html:

from gazpacho import Soup

url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_gold_medalists"
soup = Soup.get(url)

Step 2 - Find the table and table rows:

table = soup.find("table", {"class": "wikitable sortable"}, mode="first")
trs = table.find("tr")[1:]

Step 3 - Parse each row with a function to extract desired data:

def parse_tr(tr):
    return {
        "name": tr.find("td")[0].text,
        "country": tr.find("td")[1].text,
        "medals": int(tr.find("td")[-1].text)
    }

data = [parse_tr(tr) for tr in trs]
sorted(data, key=lambda x: x["medals"], reverse=True)