Error in Reading Html to Data Frame in Python “Html5Lib Not Found”
I've Come Accross the Following Error About Html5Lib When Trying to Read an Html Data Frame. Here Is the Code: !Pip Install Html5Lib! Pip Install Lxml! Pip...
I've come accross the following error about html5lib when trying to read an html data frame.
Here is the code:
!pip install html5lib
!pip install lxml
!pip install beautifulSoup4
import html5lib
import lxml
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
table_list = pd.read_html("")
This is the error:
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-68-e24654a0a301> in <module>()
----> 1 table_list = pd.read_html("")
/home/sage/sage-8.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/html.pyc in read_html(io, match, flavor, header, index_col, skiprows, attrs, parse_dates, tupleize_cols, thousands, encoding, decimal, converters, na_values, keep_default_na)
913 thousands=thousands, attrs=attrs, encoding=encoding,
914 decimal=decimal, converters=converters, na_values=na_values,
--> 915 keep_default_na=keep_default_na)
/home/sage/sage-8.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/html.pyc in _parse(flavor, io, match, attrs, encoding, **kwargs)
737 retained = None
738 for flav in flavor:
--> 739 parser = _parser_dispatch(flav)
740 p = parser(io, compiled_match, attrs, encoding)
741
/home/sage/sage-8.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/html.pyc in _parser_dispatch(flavor)
680 if flavor in ('bs4', 'html5lib'):
681 if not _HAS_HTML5LIB:
--> 682 raise ImportError("html5lib not found, please install it")
683 if not _HAS_BS4:
684 raise ImportError(
ImportError: html5lib not found, please install it
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
3 Answers
If you read the error message, you don't have html5lib installed. Do:
pip install html5lib
in your terminal.
If you are calling from jupyter notebook (just like you did with !), try to restart the kernel in order to have the packages loaded.
I had this exact error show up while trying to read a saved .htm file using Spyder IDE.
This code displayed html5lib error:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_html("F:\xxxx\xxxxx\xxxxx\aaaa.htm")
I knew I had html5lib installed and working correctly because I had other scripts that worked.
For whatever reason, file path needed to be a string literal (putting an r in front of the file path).
This code works for me:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_html(r"F:\xxxx\xxxxx\xxxxx\aaaa.htm")
I ran into this error when I gave the wrong path to the local file I was trying to open. So also be sure that you're pointing to the right place!
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