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Scrape HTML Tables Without Leaving Pandas

Webscraping is often a pain. Researching, finding, and installing the libraries you need can be time consuming. Finding the content you need in the HTML can take time. Getting everything to work can be finicky.🙁

In this article, I’ll show you how to use the Python pandas library to scrape HTML tables with single line of code! It doesn’t work in all cases, but when you have HTML tables on a website it can make your life much easier. 😀

You’ll see how to use it to get data from websites about soccer and weightlifting. ⚽️ 🏋

soccer ball on grass

We’ll use [pd.read_html()](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_html.html) to scrape tabular data. In my experience, a lot of folks don’t know about pd.read_html() even though it’s been around for over 7 years.

This article was originally published on Deepnote. You can run the interactive notebook there. 👍

Setup

To get the latest versions of necessary packages and their dependencies, uncomment and run the following code one time. Then restart your notebook kernel.

# !pip install pandas lxml beautifulsoup4 html5lib matplotlib -U

Generally, pandas will try to use lxml to parse HTML because it is fast. If that fails, then it will use BeautifulSoup4 with html5lib. You can read more about the parsers in the pandas docs.

Let’s import the packages and check versions. I always like to check the versions of Python and key libraries to help diagnose problems that might arise. 😉

import sys
import pandas as pd

print(f"Python version {sys.version}")
print(f"pandas version: {pd.__version__}")
> Python version 3.7.3 (default, Jun 11 2019, 01:11:15) 
> [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
> pandas version: 1.0.5

If your Python version is less than 3.6, I suggest you update it. Same goes for pandas if your version is less than 1.0.5. To learn more about the pandas 1.0 update, see my guide here.

Example 1: Soccer ⚽️

Let’s scrape some soccer stats about the US Women’s National Team — that’s football in much of the world. ⚽️

Let’s use the U.S. Soccer website: https://www.ussoccer.com/uswnt-stats.

Soccer Stats Table

In Chrome, go to the website, right click on the data, and select Inspect.

Chrome inspect from menu

You should see the sidebar appear. This shows you the HTML behind the page, among other things. Look for the HTML tags , , , or

. These all signify you have found a table. See w3schools.com if you want to learn about HTML table basics.

The pandas function we are going to use requires us to find HTML tables. So you’ve just struck gold! 🎉

Let’s grab the data from the webpage. To get each table into a DataFrame we just need to run the following code.

list_of_dfs = pd.read_html('https://www.ussoccer.com/uswnt-stats')

Now the DataFrames are in a list.

type(list_of_dfs)

> list

Let’s see how many DataFrames are in the list.

len(list_of_dfs)

> 2

Alright, let’s have a look at the first DataFrame. 👀

list_of_dfs[0]

player data

Looks like a bunch of players’ stats. Good, that matches what we would expect from looking at the website.

Let’s see what’s in the second table.

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Ava Watson

Ava Watson

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Know Everything About HTML With HTML Experts

HTML stands for a hypertext markup language. For the designs to be displayed in web browser HTML is the markup language. Technologies like Cascading style sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript assist HTML. With the help of HTML websites and the web, designs are created. Html has a wide range of academic applications. HTML has a series of elements. HTML helps to display web content. Its elements tell the web how to display the contents.

The document component of HTML is known as an HTML element. HTML element helps in displaying the web pages. An HTML document is a mixture of text nodes and HTML elements.

Basics of HTML are-

The simple fundamental components oh HTML is

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HTML draft version timelines are

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What is HTML?

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HTML provides the structure of a webpage, from the header and footer sections to paragraphs of text, videos, and images. CSS allows you to set the visual properties of different HTML elements, like changing colors, setting the order of blocks on the screen, and defining which elements to display. JavaScript automates changes to HTML and CSS, for example, making the font larger in a paragraph when a user clicks a button on the page.

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Commonly Used HTML Tags with Examples

HTML tags are keywords used in HTML to display web-pages with certain properties. They are further used for defining HTML elements. An HTML element consists of a starting tag, some content, and an ending tag. The web browser reads the HTML document from top to bottom, left to right. Each HTML tag defines a new property that helps in rendering the website.

HTML Tags

HTML Tags

The ‘<>’ brackets contain an HTML tag. There are two types of HTML tags- empty tags or singleton tags and container tags. Singleton tags or empty tags do not contain any content such as an image or a paragraph and hence do not need to be closed, whereas container tags should be closed.

Syntax

  1. Some Content

Examples of:

Empty tag: 
,

,etc.

Container tags: 

Paragraph

Link

  1. <!DOCTYPE>

  4. Paragraph

  5. Heading

  6. Bold
  7. Italic
  8. Underline

Output-

HTML Tags example

Head tags:

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