How do I export html table data as .csv file?

Question

I have a table of data in an html table on a website and need to know how to export that data as .csv file.

How would this be done?

Answer 1

You could use an extension for Chrome, that works well the times I have tried it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/html%20table%20to%20csv?_category=extensions

When installed and on any web page with a table if you click on this extension's icon it shows all the tables in the page, highlighting each as you roll over the tables it lists, clicking allows you to copy it to the clipboard or save it to a Google Doc.

It works perfectly for what I need, which is occasional conversion of web based tabular data into a spreadsheet I can work with.

Answer 2

I was able to use the answer outlined here: Export to CSV using jQuery and html and added in a modification to make it work in IE and another modification mentioned in the comments to grab the thead from the table.

function exportTableToCSV($table, filename) {

    var $rows = $table.find('tr:has(td),tr:has(th)'),

        // Temporary delimiter characters unlikely to be typed by keyboard
        // This is to avoid accidentally splitting the actual contents
        tmpColDelim = String.fromCharCode(11), // vertical tab character
        tmpRowDelim = String.fromCharCode(0), // null character

        // actual delimiter characters for CSV format
        colDelim = '","',
        rowDelim = '"\r\n"',

        // Grab text from table into CSV formatted string
        csv = '"' + $rows.map(function (i, row) {
            var $row = $(row), $cols = $row.find('td,th');

            return $cols.map(function (j, col) {
                var $col = $(col), text = $col.text();

                return text.replace(/"/g, '""'); // escape double quotes

            }).get().join(tmpColDelim);

        }).get().join(tmpRowDelim)
            .split(tmpRowDelim).join(rowDelim)
            .split(tmpColDelim).join(colDelim) + '"',



        // Data URI
        csvData = 'data:application/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(csv);

        console.log(csv);

        if (window.navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+
            //alert('IE' + csv);
            window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(new Blob([csv], {type: "text/plain;charset=utf-8;"}), "csvname.csv")
        } 
        else {
            $(this).attr({ 'download': filename, 'href': csvData, 'target': '_blank' }); 
        }
}

// This must be a hyperlink
$("#xx").on('click', function (event) {

    exportTableToCSV.apply(this, [$('#projectSpreadsheet'), 'export.csv']);

    // IF CSV, don't do event.preventDefault() or return false
    // We actually need this to be a typical hyperlink
});

With my link looking like this...

<a href="#" id="xx" style="text-decoration:none;color:#000;background-color:#ffffd;border:1px solid #ccc;padding:8px;">Export Table data into Excel</a>

JsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/mnsinger/65hqxygo/

Answer 3

Here is a really quick CoffeeScript/jQuery example

csv = []
for row in $('#sometable tr')
  csv.push ("\"#{col.innerText}\"" for col in $(row).find('td,th')).join(',')
output = csv.join("\n")

Answer 4

If it's an infrequent need, try one of several firefox addons which facilitate copying HTML table data to the clipboard (e.g., https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dafizilla-table2clipboard/). For example, for the 'table2clipboard' add-on:

1. install the add-on in firefox
2. open the web-page (with the table) in firefox
3. right-click anywhere in the table and select 'copy whole table'
4. start up a spreadsheet application such as LibreOffice Calc
5. paste into the spreadsheet (select appropriate separator character as needed)
6. save/export the spreadsheet as CSV.

Answer 5

For exporting html to csv try following this example. More details and examples are available at the author's website.

Create a html2csv.js file and put the following code in it.

jQuery.fn.table2CSV = function(options) {
    var options = jQuery.extend({
        separator: ',',
        header: [],
        delivery: 'popup' // popup, value
    },
    options);

    var csvData = [];
    var headerArr = [];
    var el = this;

    //header
    var numCols = options.header.length;
    var tmpRow = []; // construct header avalible array

    if (numCols > 0) {
        for (var i = 0; i < numCols; i++) {
            tmpRow[tmpRow.length] = formatData(options.header[i]);
        }
    } else {
        $(el).filter(':visible').find('th').each(function() {
            if ($(this).css('display') != 'none') tmpRow[tmpRow.length] = formatData($(this).html());
        });
    }

    row2CSV(tmpRow);

    // actual data
    $(el).find('tr').each(function() {
        var tmpRow = [];
        $(this).filter(':visible').find('td').each(function() {
            if ($(this).css('display') != 'none') tmpRow[tmpRow.length] = formatData($(this).html());
        });
        row2CSV(tmpRow);
    });
    if (options.delivery == 'popup') {
        var mydata = csvData.join('\n');
        return popup(mydata);
    } else {
        var mydata = csvData.join('\n');
        return mydata;
    }

    function row2CSV(tmpRow) {
        var tmp = tmpRow.join('') // to remove any blank rows
        // alert(tmp);
        if (tmpRow.length > 0 && tmp != '') {
            var mystr = tmpRow.join(options.separator);
            csvData[csvData.length] = mystr;
        }
    }
    function formatData(input) {
        // replace " with “
        var regexp = new RegExp(/["]/g);
        var output = input.replace(regexp, "“");
        //HTML
        var regexp = new RegExp(/\<[^\<]+\>/g);
        var output = output.replace(regexp, "");
        if (output == "") return '';
        return '"' + output + '"';
    }
    function popup(data) {
        var generator = window.open('', 'csv', 'height=400,width=600');
        generator.document.write('<html><head><title>CSV</title>');
        generator.document.write('</head><body >');
        generator.document.write('<textArea cols=70 rows=15 wrap="off" >');
        generator.document.write(data);
        generator.document.write('</textArea>');
        generator.document.write('</body></html>');
        generator.document.close();
        return true;
    }
};

include the js files into the html page like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js" ></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="html2CSV.js" ></script>

TABLE:

<table id="example1" border="1"  style="background-color:#FFFFCC" width="0%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">

    <tr>

        <th>Title</th>

        <th>Name</th>

        <th>Phone</th>

    </tr>

    <tr>

        <td>Mr.</td>

        <td>John</td>

        <td>07868785831</td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

        <td>Miss</td>

        <td><i>Linda</i></td>

        <td>0141-2244-5566</td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

        <td>Master</td>

        <td>Jack</td>

        <td>0142-1212-1234</td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

        <td>Mr.</td>

        <td>Bush</td>

        <td>911-911-911</td>

    </tr>

</table>

EXPORT BUTTON:

<input value="Export as CSV 2" type="button" onclick="$('#example1').table2CSV({header:['prefix','Employee Name','Contact']})">

Answer 6

I've briefly covered a simple way to do this with Google Spreadsheets (importHTML) and in Python (Pandas read_html and to_csv) as well as an example Python script in my SO answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28083469/1588795.