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Download HTML tables in a CSV format that is styled like MS Excel. Copy HTML Tables for Google Chrome™ – Export any web table to CSV in seconds Tired of copying and pasting tables from websites into Excel or Google Sheets, only to end up with broken columns, merged cells, and stray formatting? Copy HTML Tables for Google Chrome™ turns any HTML table on any web page into a clean, spreadsheet-ready CSV file with a single click. No sign-up, no server uploads, no complicated setup – just point, click, and download. WHY YOU NEED IT Web pages are full of valuable tabular data: financial statements, price lists, sports results, product comparisons, statistics, schedules, and reports. Getting that data into a spreadsheet is usually painful. Copy HTML Tables reads the table directly from the page structure and writes a properly formatted CSV file that opens perfectly in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, and any other spreadsheet or data tool. HOW IT WORKS There are two easy ways to grab a table: 1. Click the extension icon in your toolbar, press "Download table as CSV", and then click on the table you want on the current page. Your cursor changes to a crosshair so you always know that selection mode is active. 2. Right-click anywhere inside a table and choose "Copy HTML Table as CSV" from the context menu. The extension finds the surrounding table automatically. In both cases you are asked for a file name (the table's own ID is suggested when one exists), and the file downloads straight to your computer. If you click somewhere that is not a table, a friendly message lets you know so you can simply try again. KEY FEATURES • One-click export – Convert any visible HTML table to CSV without copying, pasting, or cleaning up afterwards. • Excel-friendly output – Files are saved as UTF-8 with BOM by default, so Excel recognizes the encoding immediately and displays accented characters, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and every other script correctly. Plain UTF-8 is one click away. • Choose your delimiter – Pick comma, semicolon, pipe, or TAB as the field separator. Semicolon is ideal for European Excel locales, and choosing TAB automatically saves the file with a .tsv extension. • Smart handling of merged cells – Tables that use colspan and rowspan are expanded so that every value lands in the correct column and row. Your spreadsheet columns stay perfectly aligned. • Standards-compliant CSV – Every cell is quoted and internal quotes are escaped according to RFC 4180. Line breaks inside cells are flattened so that one table row always equals one spreadsheet row. • Captures more than plain text – Image URLs inside cells are included, and the current values of input fields and text areas are exported too, so interactive tables and forms are preserved. • Works inside frames – The extension runs in all frames of the page, so tables embedded in iframes are exported just as easily as tables in the main document. • Remembers your settings – Your encoding and delimiter preferences are stored locally and applied to every future export. • Fully localized – The interface is available in more than 40 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, and many more. PRIVACY FIRST Copy HTML Tables works entirely inside your browser. The table data never leaves your computer and is never sent to any server. The extension only requests the minimum permissions needed to do its job: access to the active tab when you trigger an export, a context-menu entry, local storage for your two preferences, and the ability to run its small script on the page you choose. There are no accounts, no tracking, and no ads. BUILT ON MODERN CHROME TECHNOLOGY Version 3 is a complete rewrite on Manifest V3, Chrome's current and most secure extension platform. A lightweight service worker means it uses no resources while idle and starts instantly when needed. GETTING STARTED Install the extension, open any page with a table, click the toolbar icon, choose "Download table as CSV", and click the table. That is all. Open the downloaded file in your favourite spreadsheet application and your data is ready for sorting, filtering, charting, and analysis. If you find Copy HTML Tables useful, please leave a rating – it helps other users discover the extension. Have a suggestion or a table that does not export as expected? Visit the help page from the popup and let us know. Stop fighting with copy-and-paste. Get Copy HTML Tables for Google Chrome™ and take any table from the web to your spreadsheet in seconds.