https://github.com/brandon93s/html-table-to-json

Generate JSON representations of HTML tables
https://github.com/brandon93s/html-table-to-json

html-table json scraping

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Generate JSON representations of HTML tables

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brandon93s/html-table-to-json
• Owner: brandon93s
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-07-23T02:38:27.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-30T16:05:50.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-28T17:38:55.712Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: html-table, json, scraping
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-table-to-json
• Size: 359 KB
• Stars: 41
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license

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# html-table-to-json [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/brandon93s/html-table-to-json.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/brandon93s/html-table-to-json)

> Extracts tables from a provided html snippet and converts them to JSON objects

## Install

```

$ npm install html-table-to-json

```

## Usage

```js

const HtmlTableToJson = require('html-table-to-json');

const jsonTables = HtmlTableToJson.parse(`

        

            

                Animal

                Color

                Name

            

            

                Unicorn

                Pink

                Billy

            

            

                Walrus

                Orange

                Sue

            

        

    `);

console.log(jsonTables.results);

/* => [[

 *      {Animal: 'Unicorn', Color: 'Pink', Name: 'Billy'},

 *      {Animal: 'Walrus', Color: 'Orange', Name: 'Sue'}

 *    ]]

 */

console.log(jsonTables.count);

// => 1

```

## API

### HtmlTableToJson.parse(input [,options])

#### input

Type: `string`

Any html snippet.

#### options

Type: `object`

##### values

Type: `bool`

Return table rows as value arrays:

```js

// HtmlTableToJson.parse(html, { values: true })

/* => [[

 *      ['Unicorn', 'Pink', 'Billy'],

 *      ['Walrus', 'Orange', 'Sue']

 *    ]]

 */

```

## Headers

HtmlTableToJson extracts table headers ( `th` ) to be used as JSON object keys.  The first row is used when no `th` elements are present.

## License

MIT © [Brandon Smith](https://github.com/brandon93s)