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2024/05/16

CopyTables - Copy Tables in Webpages Easily Free on Windows

CopyTables is a free ad-on for Firefox. Firefox is Free, you can download from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Without this add-on, I open a webpage with Firefox and click at a table, there is nothing going on. If I hold 'Ctrl' key and click at a table, a cell is selected. I can click multiple cells with this method.


 I can use a menu copy to copy the contents.

 

The result of pasting it to Excel document is below.

 

 

The result of pasting it to Sublime Text is below.

With this add-on, things are easy to manage, just one click the entire table is selected and you can choose 'Copy it as...' -- Plain text, CSV, etc...

The test steps -  CopyTables 0.1.1
OS: Windows 11 Home
Install from Firefox's add-on website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copywebtables/

1. Go to a link above.

Click 'Add to Firefox' button.

A pop-up window shows, click 'Add'.

A pop-up window shows, click 'Okay'.

 

Pin this add-on to a toolbar. See the picture above.

Click the icon at the toolbar, click an icon at the right of 'CopyTables', then click 'Pin to Toolbar'.

2. Find table, click an add-on icon, then click 'Next table'. The table will be selected automatically.


From the picture above, click 'Options'.

From my experience, in section 'Modifier Keys', the blue keys are the keys that are usable. In the picture above, if I want to select rows, I have to deselect a used key first. Ex. I deselected 'Alt' and 'Ctrl' for selecting columns by clicking them. Then at 'To select rows', I click 'Alt' and 'Ctrl'.

To select the entire table, just click at the target table.

To select one or multiple columns, hold keys you set in options, then click at the target columns.

The picture above is the result of menu 'Table...' > 'Copy' after pasting to Microsoft Excel document. A clickable link shows in the blue text.

Multiple cell selection looks like the picture above.

Select multiple rows using menus.

 

This add-on is a must-have for info diggers.

 

The test steps -  CopyTables 0.1.1
OS: Windows 11 Home
Install from Firefox's add-on website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copywebtables/

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