tekniktjek / echo

Echo converts HTML tables into JSON/CSV objects. Use it to make html data easy to transport.

Echo - Convert HTML tables to JSON/CSVs

Echo is able to read tables from a website or a html file and convert it to JSON or CSV. Perfect for saving data from a website and loading it into excel, database, etc.

Install

npm install echo-table-2-file

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Example usage

For our examples we will be using the tables from www.coolgithubprojects.com. We use .convert for local HTML files and .convertUrl for online retrieval.

// Site was saved locally in process folder. The follow code will read it and generate the json.
var echo = require('echo-table-2-file');
echo.convert('process', 'output', 'json');

// Here we grab the tables from the site and save the data to a csv (default type).
var echo = require('echo-table-2-file');
echo.convertUrl('https://www.coolgithubprojects.com', 'output');

// Lastly, we filter the tables to only include the month table (based on table ID).
var echo = require('echo-table-2-file');
echo.convertUrl('https://www.coolgithubprojects.com', 'output', 'months');

/* OUTPUT EXAMPLE : ./output/month.csv

  "0","Language","Change","Name"
  "","JavaScript","+5607","iojs/io.js"
  "","Go","+5439","golang/go"
  "","Other","+4581","prakhar1989/awesome-courses"
  "","JavaScript","+4045","dimsemenov/PhotoSwipe"
  "","PHP","+3284","isohuntto/openbay"
  ...

*/

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Contributing

Pull requests welcome!