Table2Clipboard

This Firefox add-on improves the browser's ability to copy HTML tables and paste them into spreadsheets.

Firefox does allow users to copy HTML tables, but the original table disposition is often lost, meaning ugly results when pasting the text onto datasheet applications. Table2Clipboard fixes that problem by allowing users to past table data in Microsoft Excel and other programs with the correct formatting.

 
Product:

Table2Clipboard

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Company:

Dafizilla

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Version Tested:

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Release Date:

Aug. 5, 2011

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Cost:

Free

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Open Sourced:

No

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Demo Available:

No

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Obsolete:

No

 

Our Reviews

Verdict:

Useful for copying, pasting individual HTML tables only; not designed for complexity

Table2Clipboard won't help with heavy lifting

This free Firefox extension does a nice job copying and pasting HTML tables into spreadsheets, but it wasn't designed to help with more difficult Web scraping tasks that require navigating through multiple pages or searchable forms.

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Test Results

Verdict:

Wrong software for task

Table2Clipboard can't help with doctors database

Test: Scrape database requiring browser cookies
Documents: British Columbia physician and surgeons database

Because Table2Clipboard only assists in copying and pasting tables from the Web to a spreadsheet, it's incapable of navigating through the BC physician's database.

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Verdict:

Can't scroll through pages; individual tables copy well

Table2Clipboard can't page through large lobbyist database

Test: Scrape database in table format
Documents: South Dakota lobbyist database

This is not the right software to help scroll though 406 pages of tables on South Dakota lobbyists. However, it will help to create a nicer looking spreadsheet if you want to copy and paste pages individually.

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Verdict:

Doesn't recognize table formatting; fails to copy links

Table2Clipboard can't find tables in database of PDFs

Test: Scrape database of PDF files
Documents: Your Seat at the Table

Table2Clipboard doesn't recognize this collection of linked documents submitted to the Obama-Biden transition team as a table and fails to assist Firefox with the formatting. 

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Verdict:

Can't navigate through form; manual results copy, but without links

Table2Clipboard no help in getting at form-based teacher data

Test: Scrape database with form-based search
Documents: British Columbia teacher database

Table2Clipboard was not created to help query data on a form-based site, so the task of scraping this database of teachers was too complex -- and it was only able to copy some of the content we wanted after performing manual searches.

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