title: Trouble using Pandas read_html
body: <p>My goal is to extract data, specifically the data corresponding to the most recent date (in this case 5/20), from an HTML table <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3EB64.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3EB64.png" alt="here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Here is the corresponding HTML code: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;FW: NEFS 2 Available Quota 5/21&lt;/title&gt;
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  &lt;table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" class="header-part1"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Subject: &lt;/b&gt;FW: NEFS 2 Available Quota 5/21&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;From: &lt;/b&gt;Claire Fitz-Gerald &lt;claire@capecodfishermen.org&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Date: &lt;/b&gt;5/21/2014 10:08 AM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  &lt;/o:shapelayout&gt;&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple&gt;&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;Please see the below quota listings.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;Thanks,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;Claire Fitz-Gerald&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Demi","sans-serif";color:#002776'&gt;Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#DE3500'&gt;~ Small Boats.&amp;nbsp; Big Ideas. ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='color:#DE3500'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;From:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; David Leveille [mailto:nefs02@gmail.com] &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sent:&lt;/b&gt; Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:50 AM&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;To:&lt;/b&gt; David Leveille&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Subject:&lt;/b&gt; NEFS 2 Available Quota 5/21&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F487E'&gt;AVAILABLE QUOTA FY 2014&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="71%" style='width:71.28%'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#8BCDFF;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;ID &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#8BCDFF;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Available Quota &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 style='width:141.75pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#8BCDFF;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Live Weight Pounds &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=126 style='width:94.55pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#8BCDFF;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Price &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=168 style='width:125.95pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#8BCDFF;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Date Posted &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;1724&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;GOM COD&lt;br&gt;GOM HADD&lt;br&gt;GOM BB&lt;br&gt;GREYSOLE&lt;br&gt;DABS&lt;br&gt;GOM YT&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 style='width:141.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;2328&lt;br&gt;445&lt;br&gt;3007&lt;br&gt;850&lt;br&gt;3101&lt;br&gt;1995&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=126 style='width:94.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Package&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;$9,000&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=168 style='width:125.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;5/20&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;1578&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;GBE COD&lt;br&gt;GBW COD&lt;br&gt;GB BB&lt;br&gt;GB YT&lt;br&gt;SNE BB&lt;br&gt;SNE YT&lt;br&gt;GOM BB&lt;br&gt;Whake&lt;br&gt;POLL&lt;br&gt;RED&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 style='width:141.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;538&lt;br&gt;5894&lt;br&gt;1755&lt;br&gt;243&lt;br&gt;490&lt;br&gt;153&lt;br&gt;3965&lt;br&gt;2727&lt;br&gt;9227&lt;br&gt;15060&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=126 style='width:94.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;$1.00&lt;br&gt;$0.40&lt;br&gt;$0.20&lt;br&gt;$1.00&lt;br&gt;$0.45&lt;br&gt;$0.50&lt;br&gt;$0.15&lt;br&gt;$0.20&lt;br&gt;$0.01&lt;br&gt;$0.01&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=168 style='width:125.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;5/20&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;310&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;GBE COD&lt;br&gt;GBW COD&lt;br&gt;DABS&lt;br&gt;WHAKE&lt;br&gt;POLL&lt;br&gt;RED&lt;br&gt;SNE BB&lt;br&gt;GOM BB&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 style='width:141.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;825&lt;br&gt;9033&lt;br&gt;1241&lt;br&gt;3120&lt;br&gt;65234&lt;br&gt;76610&lt;br&gt;1688&lt;br&gt;1195&lt;br&gt;2121&lt;br&gt;7285&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=126 style='width:94.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Package&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;$15,000&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=168 style='width:125.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;5/20&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style='height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt;height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;347&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt;height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;SNE BB&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 style='width:141.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt;height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;8,000&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=126 style='width:94.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt;height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;$0.50&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=168 style='width:125.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt;height:23.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;5/7&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=220 style='width:164.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;1878A&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=161 style='width:120.75pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:white;padding:2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;GOM COD&lt;br&gt;GOM HADD&lt;br&gt;SNE BB&lt;br&gt;GOM BB&lt;br&gt;GB BB&lt;br&gt;GREYSOLE&lt;br&gt;GOM YT&lt;br&gt;SNE YT&lt;br&gt;POLL&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=189 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  <p>I tried using BeautifulSoup to access the data inside each cell. I would see 'if date 5/20 occurs below, capture all data corresponding to it'. That actually worked quite well but when I would go to put the data into a Pandas DataFrame it would fail. After many failed attempts I was told using Pandas read_html would be a wiser choice for this task. </p>
  
  <p>So far my code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  import pandas as pd
  import lxml
  import html5lib
  
  path = 'Z:\\blub'
  
  df = pd.pandas.read_html(path)
  print (df)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I run it the line <code>df = pd.pandas.read_html(path)</code> produces the error <code>ValueError: No tables found</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Does that mean that the read_html command does not recognize the data table? Is using <code>read_html</code> the wisest approach for parsing this data table neatly? I say neatly because the final step after parsing is to export it all to an Oracle Database. </p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate any and all advice solving this problem. Thanks.</p>