Just a quick snippet, since it is obvious after writing it but was not obvious while searching for it: [code lang="python"] html = file("whatever.html") soup = BeautifulSoup(html) t = soup.find(id=label) dat = [ map(str, row.findAll("td")) for row in t.findAll("tr") ] [/code] … or, map a different function is you need to further parse the individual [...]