My first Chrome extension: a free web-table exporter, and how one Reddit comment turned into a feature in 2 days

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I'm the developer. Tableport finds the tables on a web page and exports them to CSV, Excel, Markdown or JSON, or copies them straight into Sheets. It's free, has no account, and only asks for activeTab, scripting and storage, so nothing leaves your browser. Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cbepjfofpcjogkfecenccbllgfenpnlb What happened in the first week: - v1.0.0 went live. Real testing found footnote markers like [1] getting copied, numbers exported as text in JSON, and the popup not refreshing after navigation. Fixed in 1.0.1. - Someone on r/chrome_extensions asked whether it handles React "tables" built from plain divs. It didn't. 1.0.2 now guesses div-based grids, labels them "Guessed table", and you can switch that off. I tested it against ~45 big sites to keep false positives down. - 1.0.3: tables inside cross-site iframes can't be read with only activeTab, so instead of failing silently it now tells you and gives you a button to open that frame in its own tab. Honest limits: it doesn't click "next page" or scroll for you, virtualized tables only export the rows that are rendered, and canvas/image tables can't be read. If you try it, I'd really like to know which site it fails on. That's been the most useful feedback so far.   submitted by   /u/No_You_6727 [link]   [comments]