Flutterby™! : Extracting data from HTML

Quick Tip: The easiest way to grab data out of a web page in Python:

It’s that simple! Pandas will find any significant html tables on the page and return each one as a new DataFrame object.

The demo ends up as:

import pandas as pd
calls_df, = pd.read_html("http://apps.sandiego.gov/sdfiredispatch/", header=0, parse_dates=["Call Date"])
calls_df.to_csv("calls.csv", index=False)