[Python] How to capture table from html and convert it to csv file? [closed]

I have downloaded a lot of html files from the internet. I want to get some specific tables from them. However, the structure of the table in the HTML file is not exactly the same.





As you can see from the two picture above, the first table headers is in <thead> and content in <tbody>, but the second table headers and content are both in <tbody>.

So is there any universal method to extract table from html file, no matter what the structure is? So after that I can save it as csv file properly.

I find a chrome extension called capture table. Well, it can get all the tables in a html file and can save as multiple file format. Unfortunately, it is closed source. So I can't learn from the code inside.

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