I wanted to extract a table from a GitHub Markdown page into a Python data structure, preferably a pandas dataframe, but a dictionary or anything else is in principle also fine. So I thought I to start with requests.get(), and then use the markdown package to get the tables. But this is apparently not the end of the story. This is what I have so far: import markdown import requests url = "https://github.com/alfkoehn/fusion_plots/blob/master/fusion_companies/fusion_companies.md" response = requests.get(url) html = markdown.markdown(response.content) I guess next would be a bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser') call, but that is not really helpful. How do I extract the, in this case two, tables from the Markdown webpage? Continue reading...
