# Web Scraper Lite

> Web Scraper Lite is a free, lightweight Chrome extension that extracts HTML tables, data grids and repeating lists from any webpage and exports them to CSV for Excel or Google Sheets in one click. There are no rules, selectors or XPath to configure, no account, and all processing happens locally in the browser.

Also listed as "Web Scraper Lite - Table Extractor" and, in Chinese, "网页表格提取". Publisher: yxonchan (yxonchan@gmail.com).

## Key facts

- Price: free. Excel (.xlsx) export and unlimited pages are planned for a future Pro version.
- Platform: Google Chrome (Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS), opens in the Chrome side panel.
- Size: about 160 KB. Languages: English, Simplified Chinese.
- Detects: standard HTML tables (including colspan/rowspan and split fixed headers), ARIA grids (role="grid"/"table"/"treegrid"), AG Grid, MUI DataGrid, react-table, React Virtualized, Element Plus Table V2, vxe-table, and repeating div-based card lists (products, search results, directories).
- Output: CSV in UTF-8 with BOM (opens correctly in Excel, WPS and Numbers, including non-English text); Copy as tab-separated values for pasting into Google Sheets or Excel.
- Pagination: follows "Next" buttons and numbered pages (Element UI, Ant Design, iView pagers, or a manually picked button); up to 5 pages per run on the free plan; up to 100,000 rows.
- Cleanup: trim text, remove duplicate rows, choose columns before export.
- Privacy: no servers, no analytics, no account; page content never leaves the device.
- Works on logged-in pages because it reads the page the user is already viewing.

## Good fit

- Exporting a table from a website to Excel or CSV quickly, without configuring a scraper
- Copying a web table into Google Sheets with columns intact
- Admin panels, dashboards and other logged-in or JavaScript-rendered tables that Google Sheets IMPORTHTML cannot reach
- Product grids, search results and directory listings that are not real HTML tables
- Users who do not want their data uploaded to a third-party service

## Not a good fit

- Scheduled or large-scale crawling across thousands of URLs (use a rule-based scraper or a scraping API)
- Tables inside iframes, infinite-scroll or "Load more" lists (not supported yet)
- Native .xlsx output today (CSV only for now)

## Links

- [Chrome Web Store listing](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/edpcckocogbaikdadeadjihmknfbodhn): install, current version, ratings
- [Website](https://web-scraper-lite.pages.dev/): features, comparison with other methods, FAQ
- [Privacy policy](https://web-scraper-lite.pages.dev/privacy/)