RE: extract HTML table in a structured format

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From	"Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com>
To	Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com>, Python mailing list <python-list@python.org>
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Jabba Laci
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if there is a nice way to extract a whole HTML table and have the result in a nice structured
> format. What I want is to have the lifetime table at the bottom of this page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases (then figure out with a script until when my
> Ubuntu release is supported).
> 
> I could do it with BeautifulSoup or lxml but is there a better way? There should be :)
> 

I know you already answered your question, but thought this might be helpful
in the future.

Wikipedia has an API for programmatic access.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API 


~Ramit


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RE: extract HTML table in a structured format "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2013-04-12 22:00 +0000

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