from-table

from-table extracts tables from an HTML page, and outputs them as csv files. By default, it outputs to stdout, but you can have it write to a series of numbered files (one file per table) with --numbered-outputs.

Usage is like:

Usage: ./from-table --url http://www.example.com/ --file /path/to-file.html --strip-data

--strip-data condenses runs of whitespace down to a single space,
             and removes leading and trailing whitespace
--numbered-outputs writes table-1.csv, table-2.csv, etc.  Nice for inputs with more than one table

You can check it out here.

See also to-table2, which converts csv to an HTML table.

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Timestamp: 2025-11-01 19:00:09 PDT

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