Hi, Thanks, it's a great idea to parse the wiki source. Since then I have found a command for this particular task called "ubuntu-support-status" that shows what I need.
But the idea to extract an HTML table from a webpage in a structured format could be an interesting (and useful) project idea. Best, Laszlo On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 April 2013 09:44, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 :) > > Instead of parsing HTML, you could just parse the source of the page > (available via action=raw): > > ------------------------------ > import urllib2 > > url = ( > 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php' > '?title=List_of_Ubuntu_releases&action=raw' > ) > > source = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() > > # Table rows are separated with the line "|-" > # Then there is a line starting with "|" > potential_rows = source.split("\n|-\n|") > > rows = [] > > for row in potential_rows: > # Rows in the table start with a link (' [[ ... ]]') > if row.startswith(" [["): > row = [item.strip() for item in row.split("\n|")] > rows.append(row) > ------------------------------ > > >>> import pprint > >>> pprint.pprint(rows) > [['[[Warty Warthog|4.10]]', > 'Warty Warthog', > '20 October 2004', > 'colspan="2" {{Version |o |30 April 2006}}', > '2.6.8'], > ['[[Hoary Hedgehog|5.04]]', > 'Hoary Hedgehog', > '8 April 2005', > 'colspan="2" {{Version |o |31 October 2006}}', > '2.6.10'], > ['[[Breezy Badger|5.10]]', > 'Breezy Badger', > '13 October 2005', > 'colspan="2" {{Version |o |13 April 2007}}', > '2.6.12'], > ['[[Ubuntu 6.06|6.06 LTS]]', > 'Dapper Drake', > '1 June 2006', > '{{Version |o | 14 July 2009}}', > '{{Version |o | 1 June 2011}}', > '2.6.15'], > ['[[Ubuntu 6.10|6.10]]', > 'Edgy Eft', > '26 October 2006', > 'colspan="2" {{Version |o | 25 April 2008}}', > '2.6.17'], > [...] > ] > >>> > > That should give you the info you need (until the wiki page changes too > much!) > > -- > Arnaud >
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