playwright-table

Collect tabular data from HTML Table Elements as object array or 2D string array

Installation

npm install playwright-table

Usage Example

import { collectTableWithHeaders } from 'playwright-table'
import { firefox } from 'playwright'

async function main() {
  let browser = await firefox.launch()
  let page = await browser.newPage()
  await page.goto(
    'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_airport_code:_A',
  )
  await page.waitForSelector('.wikitable')
  let rows = await collectTableWithHeaders({
    page,
    selector: '.wikitable',
  })
  console.log(rows)
  await page.close()
  await browser.close()
}
main()

Details refere to example/main.ts

Typescript Signature

export function collectTableWithHeaders<Key extends string = string>(input: {
  page: Page
  selector: string
}): Promise<Record<Key, string>[] | undefined>

export function collectTableWithoutHeaders(input: {
  page: Page
  selector: string
}): Promise<string[][] | undefined>

export function collectAllTableWithHeaders<Key extends string = string>(input: {
  page: Page
  selector: string
  limit?: number
}): Promise<Array<Record<Key, string>[]>>

export function collectAllTableWithoutHeaders(input: {
  page: Page
  selector: string
  limit?: number
}): Promise<Array<string[][]>>

License

This project is licensed with BSD-2-Clause

This is free, libre, and open-source software. It comes down to four essential freedoms [ref]:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others