scraping text from multiple html files into a single csv file
- by Lulu
I have just over 1500 html pages (1.html to 1500.html). I have written a code using Beautiful Soup that extracts most of the data I need but "misses" out some of the data within the table.
My Input: e.g file 1500.html
My Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import glob
import codecs
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
with codecs.open('dump2.csv', "w", encoding="utf-8") as csvfile:
for file in glob.glob('*html*'):
print 'Processing', file
soup = BeautifulSoup(open(file).read())
rows = soup.findAll('tr')
for tr in rows:
cols = tr.findAll('td')
#print >> csvfile,"#".join(col.string for col in cols)
#print >> csvfile,"#".join(td.find(text=True))
for col in cols:
print >> csvfile, col.string
print >> csvfile, "==="
print >> csvfile, "***"
Output:
One CSV file, with 1500 lines of text and columns of data. For some reason my code does not pull out all the required data but "misses" some data, e.g the Address1 and Address 2 data at the start of the table do not come out. I modified the code to put in * and === separators, I then use perl to put into a clean csv file, unfortunately I'm not sure how to work my code to get all the data I'm looking for!
