Given an HTML table (code) in a file or at a given URL. First, load all HTML tables into the Python script by calling Pandas’ pd.read_html()
passing the URL of the HTML document. The result is a list of DataFrames, one per HTML table in the document. Second, convert any specific DataFrame to a CSV by calling the df.to_csv()
function.
Here’s the general example, replace your specific URL and output CSV file:
import pandas as pd html = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)' csv = 'my_file.csv' # 1. Read all HTML tables from a given URL tables = pd.read_html(html) # 2. Write first table, for example, to the CSV file tables[0].to_csv(csv)
Example – Exporting Python’s Wiki Page Table to CSV
Given the first descriptive table of the Python wiki page:

You convert it to a CSV by using the following approach outlined above:
import pandas as pd # 1. Read all HTML tables from a given URL tables = pd.read_html('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)') # 2. Write first table, for example, to the CSV file tables[0].to_csv('my_file.csv')
So, basically we convert the following input table (HTML):

to the following output:

How to Convert HTML Table in File to CSV File in Python
💬 Challenge: Given a single HTML table stored in a file 'my_file.html'
. How to convert that table file to a CSV file in Python?
The pandas.read_html()
function works if you use file paths or URLs as arguments! To convert an HTML table file 'my_file.html'
to a CSV file 'my_file.csv'
in Python, use the following three steps:
- Import the pandas library
- Read the HTML table as a DataFrame
df
by callingpd.read_html('my_file.html')
- Write the DataFrame to a CSV by calling
df.to_csv('my_file.csv', index=False)
if you don’t need an index of row numbers.
Here’s the concrete code that works:
import pandas as pd # Select the only (first) table using indexing [0] df = pd.read_html('my_file.html')[0] # Write DataFrame to CSV - no index required df.to_csv('my_file.csv', index=False)
This is the original HTML table file 'my_file.html'
:

This is the converted CSV file 'my_file.csv'
:

Further Reading
You can learn more about how to read an HTML table into a Pandas DataFrame in the following article:
🌍 Recommended Resource: How to Read HTML Tables with Pandas

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