# Extract HTML Tables From Web Pages as JSON

**Use case:** 

Pulls every table on a page into rows of cells you can load straight into a dataframe. No copy-paste, no merged-header cleanup. $0.003 per page.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages"
    }
  ],
  "pageFunction": "async def page_function(page, context, request):\n    rows = await page.eval_on_selector_all(\n        'table tr', 'els => els.map(r => Array.from(\\n            r.querySelectorAll(\\'th,td\\')).map(c => c.innerText.trim()))')\n    return {'url': request.url, 'rowCount': len(rows),\n            'rows': [r for r in rows if r][:500]}",
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 1,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 90,
  "waitUntil": "load",
  "respectRobotsTxt": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "blockResources": true,
  "sessionMode": "auto",
  "maxItems": 1,
  "deliverEmptyRecords": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Text",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "textTruncated": {
    "label": "Text cut at 5000",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "waitUntilReached": {
    "label": "Fully loaded",
    "format": "boolean"
  }
}
```

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