How to extract data from html table in shell script?

Question

I am trying to create a BASH script what would extract the data from HTML table. Below is the example of table from where I need to extract data:

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><b>Component</b></td>
<td><b>Status</b></td>
<td><b>Time / Error</b></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>SAVE_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.406 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_DOCUMENT</td><td>OK</td><td>0.332 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_SEND</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>DVK_RECEIVE</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>GET_USER_INFO</td><td>OK</td><td>0.143 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>NOTIFICATIONS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>ERROR_LOG</td><td>OK</td><td>0.001 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>SUMMARY_STATUS</td><td>OK</td><td>0.888 s</td></tr>
</table>

And I want the BASH script to output it like so:

SAVE_DOCUMENT OK 0.475 s
GET_DOCUMENT OK 0.345 s
DVK_SEND OK 0.002 s
DVK_RECEIVE OK 0.001 s
GET_USER_INFO OK 4.465 s
NOTIFICATIONS OK 0.001 s
ERROR_LOG OK 0.002 s
SUMMARY_STATUS OK 5.294 s

How to do it?

So far I have tried using the sed, but I don't know how to use it quite well. The header of the table(Component, Status, Time/Error) I excluded with grep using grep "<tr><td>, so only lines starting with <tr><td> will be selected for next parsing (sed). This is what I used: sed 's@<\([^<>][^<>]*\)>\([^<>]*\)</\1>@\2@g' But then <tr> tags still remain and also it wont separate the strings. In other words the result of this script is:

<tr>SAVE_DOCUMENTOK0.406 s</tr>

The full command of the script I'm working on is:

cat $FILENAME | grep "<tr><td>" | sed 's@<\([^<>][^<>]*\)>\([^<>]*\)</\1>@\2@g'

Answer 1

You may use html2text command and format the columns via column, e.g.:

$ html2text table.html | column -ts'|'

Component                                      Status  Time / Error
SAVE_DOCUMENT                                           OK            0.406 s     
GET_DOCUMENT                                            OK            0.332 s     
DVK_SEND                                                OK            0.001 s     
DVK_RECEIVE                                             OK            0.001 s     
GET_USER_INFO                                           OK            0.143 s     
NOTIFICATIONS                                           OK            0.001 s     
ERROR_LOG                                               OK            0.001 s     
SUMMARY_STATUS                                          OK            0.888 s     

then parse it further from there (e.g. cut, awk, ex).

In case you'd like to sort it first, you can use ex, see the example here or here.

Answer 2

Go with (g)awk, it's capable :-), here is a solution, but please note: it's only working with the exact html table format you had posted.

 awk -F "</*td>|</*tr>" '/<\/*t[rd]>.*[A-Z][A-Z]/ {print $3, $5, $7 }' FILE

Here you can see it in action: https://ideone.com/zGfLe

Some explanation:

1. -F sets the input field separator to a regexp (any of tr's or td's opening or closing tag

2. then works only on lines that matches those tags AND at least two upercasse fields

3. then prints the needed fields.

HTH

Answer 3

You can use bash xpath (XML::XPath perl module) to accomplish that task very easily:

xpath -e '//tr[position()>1]' test_input1.xml 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's/<\/*tr>//g' -e 's/<td>//g' -e 's/<\/td>/ /g'