Convert HTML Tables to CSV with GrabzIt

In business, data is often critical. Businesses and organizations rely on data to make informed decisions and drive growth. However, extracting data from various sources can be a time-consuming and tedious process.

HTML tables serve as a common source of data that exists all over the internet. This article discusses converting HTML tables to CSV format. The only viable way to convert HTML to CSV. CSV is a popular file type for extracting data.

What is CSV?

CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values, and it is a simple file format used to store tabular data. Each line in a CSV file represents a row in the table, and commas separate the values. Many people use this format because it is easy to read and can open in any spreadsheet program. Such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

Why Convert HTML Tables to CSV?

People commonly use HTML tables to display data on websites, but they are not ideal for data extraction. Manually copying and pasting data from an HTML table can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Automatically converting an HTML table to CSV makes it easy to transfer data to a spreadsheet program. Making further analysing the data easy.

Other Formats for Converting HTML Tables

Aside from CSV, there are also other file formats that are useful when converting HTML tables, these are JSON and XLSX. Web applications commonly use JSON as a lightweight data interchange format. Spreadsheet programs use XLSX, these programs offer more advanced data processing and insight features.

How GrabzIt reads HTML Tables

GrabzIt can read data that is available on the web in a tabular format, but is not easily extractable. This could be anything from stock prices to a television channel listing. GrabzIt's HTML Table to CSV service can extract this information.

GrabzIt's API or Online Screenshot Tool can convert HTML tables into multiple file types including CSV, JSON, or Excel. Additionally, you can extract multiple tables at once when using Microsoft Excel. Creating a new Excel sheet or object for each table found.

GrabzIt does this by using the table headers, table rows, and columns. From the table data to create a CSV file or other file format. The CSV files and XLSX spreadsheets will be openable in any spreadsheet program including Google Sheets.

The table convertor uses a web browser to properly read the columns or rows of any tables. Before returning it to you in a format that is easily readable.

Try the example to see how the API converts HTML tables to Excel, JSON and CSV files online. Just enter the URL of a web page that contains an HTML table and click GrabzIt. After completion, the system will automatically download a file that represents the table.

HTML Table API

GrabzIt's HTML Table API supports multiple programming languages. Simply choose the required language from the options below to view a code snippet and receive instructions on how to begin.

ASP.NET
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
REST API
Ruby

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using ASP.NET. To start converting HTML tables just download the ASP.NET Library and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for ASP.NET to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

//The client should be stored somewhere and reused!
GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret", client);

TableOptions options = new TableOptions();
options.Format = TableFormat.;

grabzIt.URLToTable("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", options); 
await grabzIt.SaveToAsync("tables/result.");

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using Java. To start converting HTML tables just download the Java Library and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for Java to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");

TableOptions options = new TableOptions();
options.setFormat(TableFormat.);

grabzIt.URLToTable("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", options); 
grabzIt.SaveTo("tables/result.");

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using JavaScript. To start converting HTML tables download GrabzIt's JavaScript Library. Then get your key and secret, add the domain you want to use the JavaScript on and Finally check out the API documentation for JavaScript to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@grabzit/js@/grabzit.min.js"></script>
<script>
GrabzIt("Sign in to view your Application Key").ConvertURL("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", 
{"format":""}).Create();
</script>

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert HTML to using Node.js. To start converting HTML tables just download the Node.js Package and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for Node.js to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

var grabzit = require('grabzit');

var client = new grabzit("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");

var options = {"format",""};

client.url_to_table("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", options);
client.save_to("tables/result.", function (error, id){
    if (error != null){
        throw error;
    }
});

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using Perl. To start converting HTML tables just download the Perl Library and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for Perl to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use GrabzItClient;

$grabzIt = GrabzItClient->new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");

$options = GrabzItTableOptions->new();
$options->format("");

$grabzIt->URLToTable("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", $options);
$grabzIt->SaveTo("tables/result.");

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using PHP. To start converting HTML tables just download the PHP Library and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for PHP to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

include("GrabzItClient.php");

$grabzIt = new \GrabzIt\GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");

$options = new \GrabzIt\GrabzItTableOptions();
$options->setFormat("");

$grabzIt->URLToTable("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", $options); 
$grabzIt->SaveTo("tables/result.");

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using Python. To start converting HTML tables just download the Python Library and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for Python to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

from GrabzIt import GrabzItClient

grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")

options = GrabzItTableOptions.GrabzItTableOptions()
options.format = ""

grabzIt.URLToTable("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", options) 
grabzIt.SaveTo("tables/result.")

This code shows how easy it is to change an HTML Table into a document with our REST API. Also check out the API documentation for the REST API for more ways to customize your table extractions.

https://api.grabz.it/convert?key=Sign in to view your Application Key&format=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fpage-with-table.html

This code snippet indicates how straightforward it is to convert a HTML Table into a document using Ruby. To start converting HTML tables just download the Ruby Gem and then get your key and secret. Finally check out the API documentation for Ruby to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

require 'grabzit'

grabzItClient = GrabzIt::Client.new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")

options = GrabzIt::TableOptions.new()
options.format = ""

grabzItClient.url_to_table("http://www.example.com/page-with-table.html", options)	
grabzItClient.save_to("tables/result.")

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