README.md

html2csv

html2csv is a utility that extracts tables from HTML documents and converts them to CSV format, written in Python.

Setup

Python 3 is required (version >=3.6). Install html2csv by pip.

pip install html-to-csv

Yes, the package name is html-to-csv due to collision ;-)

Examples

Input from the standard input, and output to the standard output.

html2csv

Input from a file, and output to the standard output.

html2csv example.html

Input from files, and output to a file.

html2csv example1.html example2.html -o output.csv

Input from the network, and output to the standard output.

html2csv http://example.com

Usage

usage: html2csv [-h] [-o [OUTPUT]] [-e ENGINE] [-V] [input [input ...]]

Convert HTML table to CSV format.

positional arguments:
  input                 input sources (files, URLs, etc., default: standard
                        input)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o [OUTPUT], --output [OUTPUT]
                        output target (default: standard output)
  -e ENGINE, --engine ENGINE
                        HTML parser engine (default: html.parser or lxml if
                        installed)
  -V, --version         display version

Author and Contact

Wentao Han ([email protected])