Hi (again) Jay,
when working with tables, I definitely suggest to have a look at the Table Extractor node first. In case the website provides a properly formatted <table>
element this node will automatically convert it to a KNIME table.
Example from the Wikipedia page List of languages by total number of speakers:
Use the Find Elements node to enter the query for the table. Here I’m using the CSS query .wikitable
.
Then simply connect a “Table Extractor” and you’ll get a KNIME table which looks as follows:
The workflow is a simple as:
You can find the sample workflow on my NodePit Space:
Feel free to get back in case of questions!
Best,
Philipp