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  1. davefernig created this gist Jun 12, 2018.
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    # Before executing this script, run the following in your terminal:
    # virtualenv .
    # source bin/activate
    # pip install beautifulsoup4

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    import urllib2


    path = "http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98-200-x/2016001/98-200-x2016001-eng.cfm"

    response = urllib2.urlopen(path)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read(), 'html.parser')
    tables = soup.findAll("table")

    for row in tables[0].findAll("tr")[2:-1]:
    data = row.getText().split("\n")
    print data[2].ljust(12),\
    data[3].ljust(18),\
    data[4].ljust(30),\
    data[5].ljust(15)