Table to CSV
Save HTML Tables, CSS Pseudo/DIV Tables or Lists (UL/OL) as a comma seperated values (CSV) file which can be opened with any spreadsheet processor (e.g. excel, libreoffice-calc,gnumeric) for further processing and conversion (e.g. to xls or ods)
What is Table to CSV?
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Summary
Save HTML Tables, CSS Pseudo/DIV Tables or Lists (UL/OL) as a comma seperated values (CSV) file which can be opened with any spreadsheet processor (e.g. excel, libreoffice-calc,gnumeric) for further processing and conversion (e.g. to xls or ods)
Short Demo Video: https://github.com/igorlogius/tbl2csv/assets/67047467/df43f0a3-101c-4e82-8a24-74d2cc82b018
Technical, statistical or other data on the world wide web is sometimes only available as tables or lists. This add-on makes it very easy to save this data as a comma seperated values (csv) file.
Usage:
- Visit a site with table like data for example
- Click the extension icon to highlight the exportable tables and lists
- Right click inside one of the highlighted areas
- In the context menu select "tbl2csv" > "Export as TEXT" or "Export as HTML"
- TEXT: cell.innerText (ref. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/innerText )
- HTML := cell.innerHTML
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Pros
- Works flawlessly
- Useful for data extraction
- Reliable for creating datasets for data science practice
- Extension is straightforward
Cons
- Need to run extension first to generate table areas
- Difference between the two export modes is not clear
- Right clicking a table and selecting 'export' does nothing before generating the table areas
Most mentioned
- Efficiency in extracting and exporting data
- Need to run extension before exporting
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Safety
Risk impact
Table to CSV is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Table to CSV is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.