Load Website table into Python

On the web you can find countless of tables. Those tables (and any webpage) is defined in HTML. So you need to parse HTML right?

Not exactly, there's a module called Pandas which parses the data for you. That data is then stored in a data structure named data frame.

Say you grab the table from https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

#!/usr/bin/python3
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

url ='https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html'
res2=pd.read_html(url)
print(res2)
print("+"*50)
print(res2[0]["Bank Name"])

So the line

res2=pd.read_html(url)

gets the whole table and puts it in a pandas data frame. That easy!

This line shows the whole table

print(res2)

for a specific column

print(res2[0]["Bank Name"])

So you can easily grab data from a webpage, without having to parse html language yourself.

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• Official pandas documentation