How can I scrape these Wikipedia tables with BeautifulSoup?

Question

I'm trying to scrape all the movies and release dates on this Wikipedia page across multiple tables.

This is my code:

url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films"
res = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(res, 'lxml')
for items in soup.find('table', class_='wikitable').find_all('tr')[1::1]:
    data = items.find_all(['th', 'td'])
    try:
        movie = data[0].i.a.text
    except IndexError:
        pass
        print("{}".format(movie))

However, I'm only getting the movie titles from the first 1930s–1940s table. What I'm hoping for is two columns like this:

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"    "December 21, 1937"
"Pinocchio"                          "February 7, 1940"
"Fantasia"                           "November 13, 1940"

How would I get this?

Answer 1

Since you expect two columns (and potentially a dataframe), you can use read_html from pandas :

#pip install pandas
import pandas as pd

wiki_link = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films"
​
df = (pd.concat(pd.read_html(wiki_link), ignore_index=True)
            [["Title", "Release date"]].dropna(subset=["Title"]))

Output :

print(df)

                               Title       Release date
0    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  December 21, 1937
1                          Pinocchio   February 7, 1940
2                           Fantasia  November 13, 1940
..                               ...                ...
618         Untitled Zootopia sequel                TBA
619                   World's Best ‡                TBA
620            Wouldn't It Be Nice ‡                TBA

[600 rows x 2 columns]