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Abhinav Kumar
Abhinav Kumar

Reputation: 197

How to read html table in pandas and output to dataframe not list

I am reading html table from html file into pandas, and want to get it as a dataframe not a list so that I can perform general dataframe operations.

I am facing error as below whenever I try anything except for printing whole dataframe.

print(dfdefault.shape())
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'shape'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 13195

Answers (1)

Cohan
Cohan

Reputation: 4544

Pandas .read_html() function will return a list of dataframes where each dataframe is a table found on the page. Using StackOverflow's leagues, we can see that there are two tables on the right side of the page. As you can see below, a list is what read_html() is returning.

url = 'https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/alltime/stackoverflow'
df_list = pd.read_html(url)
print(df_list)
# [  Rep Change*   Users <-- first table
# 0     10,000+   15477
# 1      5,000+   33541
# 2      2,500+   68129
# 3      1,000+  155430
# 4        500+  272683
# 5        250+  429742
# 6        100+  458600
# 7         50+  458600
# 8          1+  458600,
#    Total Rep*     Users <-- second table
# 0    100,000+       697
# 1     50,000+      1963
# 2     25,000+      5082
# 3     10,000+     15477
# 4      5,000+     33541
# 5      3,000+     56962
# 6      2,000+     84551
# 7      1,000+    155430
# 8        500+    272683
# 9        200+    458600
# 10         1+  10381503]

print(len(df_list))
# 2

From here, you just need to specify which table you want to work with. If there's only one table, it's pretty easy to figure out which one to use.

df = df_list[0]
print(df)
#   Rep Change*   Users
# 0     10,000+   15477
# 1      5,000+   33541
# 2      2,500+   68129
# 3      1,000+  155430
# 4        500+  272683
# 5        250+  429742
# 6        100+  458600
# 7         50+  458600
# 8          1+  458600
print(df.shape)
# (9, 2)

Upvotes: 7

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