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pull golf world rankings
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world_golf_rankings.py
import pandas as pd
# Started by Googling "World Golf Rankings"
# Clicked on 1st site I found
# Needed to expand the ranking table to "all"
data = pd.read_html('http://www.owgr.com/ranking?pageNo=1&pageSize=All&country=All')
# pd.read_html will return a list of data frames
# usually you need to go through this list to find the data
# you are looking for
rankings_df = data[0]
# This dataframe will need a little clean up but the data is there
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