html = file("whatever.html")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
t = soup.find(id=label)
dat = [ map(str, row.findAll("td")) for row in t.findAll("tr") ]

4 Responses to “Parsing Tables With Beautiful Soup”

1. Minder (December 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm )
   

   Thanks! That was very helpful :D

2. David Underhill (December 17th, 2010 at 10:05 pm )
   

   Thanks, this is pretty much what I needed. I tweaked it a little get the contents of columns (no td tags):

   rows = [[c.string for c in row.findAll("td")] for row in t.findAll(“tr”)]

3. Sankalp Agarwal (January 6th, 2011 at 6:24 am )
   

   It works seamlessly but doesn’t work if the person has inserted tags in between ..

   E.g.

   …
   ….

   .
   .

   …..
   …..

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