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I wish pandas.read_html supported the storage_options keyword argument, just like pandas.read_json and many other functions.
The storage_options can be helpful when reading data from websites requiring request headers, such as user-agent.
Feature Description
With the suggestion, pd.read_html will accept storage_options:
importpandasaspdurl="http://apps.fibi.co.il/Matach/matach.aspx"user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"df=pd.read_html(url, storage_options={"User-Agent": user_agent})[0]
Currently, without the storage_options argument, the request fails with:
df=pd.read_html(url)[0]
ValueError: No tables found
Alternative Solutions
A workaround is to use urllib and send pandas the HTTP response:
importurllib.requestimportpandasaspdurl="http://apps.fibi.co.il/Matach/matach.aspx"user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"request=urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": user_agent})
withurllib.request.urlopen(request) asresponse:
df=pd.read_html(response)[0]
This approach is valid but more verbose.
It will be valuable to extend the already widespread support of storage_options in pandas to pd.read_html also.
Additional Context
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Feature Type
Problem Description
I wish
pandas.read_html
supported thestorage_options
keyword argument, just likepandas.read_json
and many other functions.The
storage_options
can be helpful when reading data from websites requiring request headers, such as user-agent.Feature Description
With the suggestion,
pd.read_html
will acceptstorage_options
:Currently, without the
storage_options
argument, the request fails with:Alternative Solutions
A workaround is to use
urllib
and send pandas the HTTP response:This approach is valid but more verbose.
It will be valuable to extend the already widespread support of
storage_options
in pandas topd.read_html
also.Additional Context
No response
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: