Obtain information from tag table

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STEP 5. VIEWING THE CODE OF TABLE ELEMENTS
In the previous article, we learned how to view the code of each element on a website page. To get information about the code of table elements, we need to check its location first.

Parsing a Table from a Website in guatemala telegram database Python: A Step-by-Step GuideTable layout
As you can see from the image above, this table is inside the <table> tag and id = 'main_table_countries_today' . Now we can define the variable. In our case, we will define the table as 'table1'.


table1 = soup.find(‘table’, id=’main_table_countries_today’)
table1

STEP 6. CREATING COLUMNS
After creating table1 we can see the location of each column. If we look at all the columns we will notice that they have the same characteristic.

Parsing a Table from a Website in Python: A Step-by-Step GuideColumns
The figure shows the general characteristics of each column - they are located inside the <th> tag .

After finding the tags, we create a for loop to fill an empty list with our columns. Let's define the empty list as headers.