HTML Tutorial

This functionality requires an experimental html plugin. Read More

Frictionless supports parsing HTML format:

CLI

pip install frictionless[html]

pip install 'frictionless[html]' # for zsh shell

Reading Data

You can this file format using Package/Resource, for example:

Python

from pprint import pprint

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource(path='data/table1.html')

pprint(resource.read_rows())

[{'id': 1, 'name': 'english'}, {'id': 2, 'name': '中国人'}]

Writing Data

The same is actual for writing:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

source = Resource(data=[['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, 'german']])

target = source.write('table.html')

print(target)

print(target.to_view())

{'path': 'table.html'}

+----+-----------+

| id | name |

+====+===========+

| 1 | 'english' |

+----+-----------+

| 2 | 'german' |

+----+-----------+

Configuring Data

There is a dialect to configure HTML, for example:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

from frictionless.plugins.html import HtmlDialect

resource = Resource(path='data/table1.html', dialect=HtmlDialect(selector='#id'))

print(resource.read_rows())

References:

• Html Dialect