I´m trying to extract the HTML part that is located above and below a <table> tag, so for example from the example html below:
sample_html = """<html>
<title><b>Main Title</b></Title>
<b>more</b>
<b>stuff</b>
<b>in here!</b>
<table class="softwares" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="99%">
<thead style="background-color: #ededed">
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><b>Windows</b></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Type</b></td>
<td><b>Issue</b></td>
<td><b>Restart</b></td>
<td><b>Severity</b></td>
<td><b>Impact</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>some item</td>
<td><a href="some website">some website</a><br></td>
<td>Yes<br></td>
<td>Critical<br></td>
<td>stuff<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>some item</td>
<td><a href="some website">some website</a><br></td>
<td>Yes<br></td>
<td>Important<br></td>
<td>stuff<br></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<b>AGAIN</b>
<b>more</b>
<b>stuff</b>
<b>down here!</b>
</html>
"""I would like to obtain something like.
top_html = """<html>
<title><b>Main Title</b></Title>
<b>more</b>
<b>stuff</b>
<b>in here!</b>
</html>
"""
bottom_html = """<html>
<b>AGAIN</b>
<b>more</b>
<b>stuff</b>
<b>down here!</b>
</html>
"""Or already in text format, like:
top_html = 'Main Title more stuff down here!'
bottom_html = 'AGAIN more stuff down here!'So I´ve been able to extract the <table> part of from the whole HTML and do my processing (I separate the rows <tr> and columns <td> so I can extract the values I need), with the following code:
soup = BeautifulSoup(input_html, "html.parser")
table = soup.find('table')