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Beautiful Soup (Scraping Data from Html Table)

Explore how to scrape and extract data from HTML tables using the Beautiful Soup library. This lesson teaches you to navigate HTML markup, retrieve table headers and rows, clean data, and convert it into a structured Pandas DataFrame for analysis.

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Table in HTML

We will be scraping 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 of 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 ...