Reading and Writing HTML Tables with Pandas

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Introduction

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for building web pages. We can render tabular data using HTML’s

element. The Pandas data analysis library provides functions like read_html() and to_html() so we can import and export data to DataFrames.

In this article, we will learn how to read tabular data from an HTML file and load it into a Pandas DataFrame. We’ll also learn how to write data from a Pandas DataFrame and to an HTML file.

Note: In this article, we will read and write HTML

elements. This article does not include parsing the entire HTML file.

Reading HTML

We can read tables of an HTML file using the read_html() function. This function read tables of HTML files as Pandas DataFrames. It can read from a file or a URL.

Let’s have a look at each input source one by one.

 

 

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