wikipedia how to extract table api code example
Example: get table wikipedia
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_heads_of_state_and_government"
res = requests.get(URL).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(res,'lxml')
for items in soup.find('table', class_='wikitable').find_all('tr')[1::1]:
data = items.find_all(['th','td'])
try:
country = data[0].a.text
title = data[1].a.text
name = data[1].a.find_next_sibling().text
except IndexError:pass
print("{}|{}|{}".format(country,title,name))