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This script reads a text file containing a HTML table, uses pandas to parse that table into a dataframe. Then writes that dataframe as a CSV to another text file.

import pandas as pd

f=open('input_table.html','r')
html = f.read()
df = pd.read_html(html)
df[0].to_csv('output.csv',index=False,header=False)

Problem is some of the cells of the table randomly contain URL encoded HTML. So for example <h1>My Heading</h1> will be %3Ch1%3EMy%20Heading%3C%2Fh1%3E

Ive tried

import pandas as pd
import urllib

f=open('input_table.html','r')
html = f.read()
html=urllib.unquote(html).decode('utf8')
df = pd.read_html(html)
df[0].to_csv('output.csv',index=False,header=False)

But that results in scrambled results in the CSV.

Have to be careful when downloading HTML to disk,and then try to read it back again so encoding don't get mess up.
Should always use Requests,then get correct encoding back.
Example:

>>> import requests
>>> 
>>> response = requests.get('https://www.contextures.com/xlSampleData01.html')
>>> response.status_code
200
>>> response.encoding
'ISO-8859-1'

To disk:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://www.contextures.com/xlSampleData01.html')
html = response.text
with open('html_raw.html', 'w', encoding='ISO-8859-1') as f_out:
    f_out.write(html)

Read saved data pandas:

I could of course also read the url,without saving to disk.

df = pd.read_html('http://www.contextures.com/xlSampleData01.html', header=0)

Sorry I am a learner. What I want to do is convert data inside dataframe. So that

%3Ch1%3EMy%20Heading%3C%2Fh1%3E

becomes


<h1>My Heading</h1>

(Jan-02-2019, 01:36 AM)UnionSystems Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry I am a learner. What I want to do is convert data inside dataframe. So that

What i mean is that HTML can be messed up by our saving before get into pandas DataFrame.
I can not tell how you get that html data to disk.
Just decode,answers will always by in Python 3(as you also should use).

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> 
>>> url = '%3Ch1%3EMy%20Heading%3C%2Fh1%3E'
>>> urllib.parse.unquote(url)
'<h1>My Heading</h1>'

I cannot change the data I am getting from the text file.

So how can I

urllib.parse.unquote(url)

to all rows in a dataframe.

I have tried

df=df.apply(lambda x:urllib.unquote(x).decode('utf8'))

But get error


AttributeError: ("'Series' object has no attribute 'split'", u'occurred at index 0')

Found the solution with only 2 lines of code

import pandas as pd
import urllib
 
f=open('input_table.html','r')
html = f.read()
df = pd.read_html(html)
df = df[0].applymap(str)
df = df.applymap(urllib.unquote_plus)
df.to_csv('output.csv',index=False,header=False)