# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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 = []