# How to read a table from url

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-a-table-from-url/90985>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** dataframes, website, tables\
**Created:** [November 29, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-a-table-from-url/90985 "2022-11-29T10:47:56Z")\
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My answer was for situations where the remote url returns a delimited file, which is what `CSV.File` parses. You are looking to extract a table from html, so need a library that parses html rather than delimited files, see:

> [@Scraping a html table from a website](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/scraping-a-html-table-from-a-website/47378):
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> I am trying to obtain COVID-19 data from a website. The website has the data which I want but it is in a html table format I am looking for Julia tools to scrape the information from the html table. Something like this Is there an existing package in Julia for this? I am thinking about writing my own module to do this but I ask here first before writing my own module.

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