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wikiepdia: asia table data extractor
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// This gist extracts the 'Political geography' Table From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
// Political geography table index
table = document.querySelectorAll('.wikitable')[2];
header = Array.from(table.rows[0].cells).map(i => i.innerText);
Flag = 0;
Symbol = 1;
data = [];
for (var i = 1, row; row = table.rows[i]; i++) {
//iterate through rows
const obj = {};
for (var j = 0, col; col = row.cells[j]; j++) {
//iterate through columns
obj[header[j]] = [Flag].includes(j) ? col.firstChild.firstChild.href : [Symbol].includes(j) ? col.firstChild.href : col.innerText;
}
data.push(obj);
}
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