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Convert HTML Tables to Excel Reports in Python

Convert HTML tables into formatted Excel reports using BeautifulSoup and Pandas with auto-adjusted column widths.

html excel beautifulsoup
Python 
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pathlib import Path

def html_table_to_excel(html_file: str, excel_file: str) -> None:
    """Convert HTML table to formatted Excel report."""
    with open(html_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        html_content = f.read()
    
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_…
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