# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Name: html_table_parser
# Purpose: Simple class for parsing an (x)html string to extract tables.
# Written in python3
#
# Author: Josua Schmid
#
# Created: 05.03.2014
# Copyright: (c) Josua Schmid 2014
# Licence: AGPLv3
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from html.parser import HTMLParser
class HTMLTableParser(HTMLParser):
""" This class serves as a html table parser. It is able to parse multiple
tables which you feed in. You can access the result per .tables field.
"""
def __init__(
self,
decode_html_entities=False,
data_separator=' ',
):
HTMLParser.__init__(self)
self._parse_html_entities = decode_html_entities
self._data_separator = data_separator
self._in_td = False
self._in_th = False
self._current_table = []
self._current_row = []
self._current_cell = []
self.tables = []
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
""" We need to remember the opening point for the content of interest.
The other tags (
, ) are only handled at the closing point.
"""
if tag == 'td':
self._in_td = True
if tag == 'th':
self._in_th = True
def handle_data(self, data):
""" This is where we save content to a cell """
if self._in_td or self._in_th:
self._current_cell.append(data.strip())
def handle_charref(self, name):
""" Handle HTML encoded characters """
if self._parse_html_entities:
self.handle_data(self.unescape('{};'.format(name)))
def handle_endtag(self, tag):
""" Here we exit the tags. If the closing tag is
, we know that we
can save our currently parsed cells to the current table as a row and
prepare for a new row. If the closing tag is
, we save the
current table and prepare for a new one.
"""
if tag == 'td':
self._in_td = False
elif tag == 'th':
self._in_th = False
if tag in ['td', 'th']:
final_cell = self._data_separator.join(self._current_cell).strip()
self._current_row.append(final_cell)
self._current_cell = []
elif tag == 'tr':
self._current_table.append(self._current_row)
self._current_row = []
elif tag == 'table':
self.tables.append(self._current_table)
self._current_table = []