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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:17:19+00:00

I want to extract data from HTML table using Python script and save it

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I want to extract data from HTML table using Python script and save it as variables(that I can later use in same script after loading them in if they exist) into a separate file. Also I want the script to ignore the first row of table(Component, Status, Time / Error). I would prefer not to use external libraries.

The output into a new file should be like so:

SAVE_DOCUMENT_STATUS = "OK"
SAVE_DOCUMENT_TIME = "0.408"
GET_DOCUMENT_STATUS = "OK"
GET_DOCUMENT_TIME = "0.361"
...

And heres the input to the script:

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><b>Component</b></td>
<td><b>Status</b></td>
<td><b>Time / Error</b></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>SAVE_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.408 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.361 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_SEND</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_RECEIVE</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_USER_INFO</td><td>OK</td><td>0.135 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>NOTIFICATIONS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>ERROR_LOG</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>SUMMARY_STATUS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.913 s</td></tr>
</table>

I tried to do it in bash, but since I need to compare *_TIME variables to maximum time, then it fails, because they’re float numbers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using lxml:

    import lxml.html as lh

content='''\
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><b>Component</b></td>
<td><b>Status</b></td>
<td><b>Time / Error</b></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>SAVE_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.408 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.361 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_SEND</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_RECEIVE</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_USER_INFO</td><td>OK</td><td>0.135 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>NOTIFICATIONS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.002 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>ERROR_LOG</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>SUMMARY_STATUS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.913 s</td></tr>
</table>
'''
tree=lh.fromstring(content)
for key, status, t in zip(*[iter(tree.xpath('//td/text()'))]*3):
    print('''{k}_STATUS = "{s}"
{k}_TIME = "{t}"'''.format(k=key,s=status,t=t.rstrip(' s')))

    yields

    SAVE_DOCUMENT_STATUS = "OK"
SAVE_DOCUMENT_TIME = "0.408"
GET_DOCUMENT_STATUS = "OK"
GET_DOCUMENT_TIME = "0.361"
DVK_SEND_STATUS = "OK"
DVK_SEND_TIME = "0.002"
DVK_RECEIVE_STATUS = "OK"
DVK_RECEIVE_TIME = "0.002"
GET_USER_INFO_STATUS = "OK"
GET_USER_INFO_TIME = "0.135"
NOTIFICATIONS_STATUS = "OK"
NOTIFICATIONS_TIME = "0.002"
ERROR_LOG_STATUS = "OK"
ERROR_LOG_TIME = "0.001"
SUMMARY_STATUS_STATUS = "OK"
SUMMARY_STATUS_TIME = "0.913"
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