Parsing tables and XML with BeautifulSoup

Perquisites:  Web scrapping using Beautiful soup, XML Parsing

Scraping is a very essential skill that everybody should learn, It helps us to scrap data from a website or a file that can be used in another beautiful manner by the programmer. In this article, we will learn how to Extract a Table from a website and XML from a file.
Here, we will scrap data using the Beautiful Soup Python Module.

Modules Required:

• bs4: Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It can be installed using the below command:

pip install bs4

• lxml: It is a Python library that allows us to handle XML and HTML files. It can be installed using the below command:

pip install lxml

• request: Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. It can be installed using the below command:

pip install request

Step-by-step Approach to parse Tables:

Step 1: Firstly, we need to import modules and then assign the URL.

Step 2: Create a BeautifulSoap object for parsing.

Step 3: Then find the table and its rows. 

Step 4: Now create a loop to find all the td tags in the table and then print all the table data tags.

Below is the complete program based on the above approach:

Output:

Step-by-step Approach to parse XML files:

Step 1: Before moving on, You can create your own ‘xml file’ or you can just copy and paste below code, and name it as test1.xml file on your system.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<books>
  <book>
    <title>Introduction of Geeksforgeeks V1</title>
    <author>Gfg</author>
    <price>6.99</price>
  </book>
  <book>
    <title>Introduction of Geeksforgeeks V2</title>
    <author>Gfg</author>
    <price>8.99</price>
  </book>
  <book>
    <title>Introduction of Geeksforgeeks V2</title>
    <author>Gfg</author>
    <price>9.35</price>
  </book>
</books>

Step 2: Create a python file and import modules.

Step 3: Read the content of the XML.

Step 4: Parse the content of the XML.

Step 5: Display the content of the XML file.

Below is the complete program based on the above approach:

Output:

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