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How to make links in pandas dataframe clickable?

I'm currently using beautifulsoup to scrape a table on a site, this table includes links, I am then converting this table into a pandas dataframe and converting it to html using pandas 'to_html' option, this is all running in Django.

This is how I'm creating the table in Python:

res = []
                for row in table.find_all('tr'):
                    row_data = []
                    for td in row.find_all('td'):
                        td_check = td.find('a')
                        if td_check is not None:
                            link = td.find('a')
                            row_data.append(link)
                        else:
                            not_link = ''.join(td.stripped_strings)
                            if not_link == '':
                                not_link = None
                            row_data.append(not_link)
                    res.append(row_data)

I then convert it to HTML using this:

sangerDF = sangerDF.to_html(classes=["table-bordered", "table-striped", "table-hover",], index=False, justify="initial")

But it outputs the table on my site like this:

Table

I don't understand why it isn't clickable? If I inspect a cell in the table using my browser the HTML is:

<td>
   &lt;a href="https://www.sanger.ac.uk/htgt/wge/crispr/1006029202"&gt;1006029202&lt;/a&gt;
</td>

So something is going wrong with the formatting somewhere, how would I fix this?

Thanks!

Solution

  • I figured it out, to my 'to_html' I had to add 'escape=False' in brackets at the end.

    so my code before:

    sangerDF = sangerDF.to_html(classes=["table-bordered", "table-striped", "table-hover",], index=False, justify="initial")

    and after:

    sangerDF = sangerDF.to_html(classes=["table-bordered", "table-striped", "table-hover",], index=False, justify="initial", escape=False)

    Hope this helps.