Cheerio Table Parser

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Parsing table element of Cheerio into 2D array.

Installation

``
npm install @joshuaavalon/cheerio-table-parser
`

Usage

`typescript
import cheerio from "cheerio";
import { parseTable } from "@joshuaavalon/cheerio-table-parser";

const dom = cheerio.load(html);
table = parseTable(dom("table")[0], {
parser: (element) => cheerio(element).text(),
});

/*
[
["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"],
["1a", "2a", "3a", "4a", "5a"],
["1a", "2b", "2b", "4b", "5b"],
["1a", "2b", "2b", "4c", "5c"],
["1a", "2d", "3d", "4c", "5d"],
["1a", "2d", "3e", "4e", "5e"]
]
*/
`

Known Issues

$3

According to [HTML table specifications][table], it depends on how user agent render the table. Most browsers render it as overlapping cell.

However, this is not possible in this library. Therefore, it will favour rowspan over colspan.

$3

, , should be handled separately. This is not consider in this library. However, you can pass in instead of

` separately.

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[table]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6.1