gauchogrid.hashnode.devWhy Most Table Scrapers Fail on Wikipedia (And How to Fix It)Wikipedia is one of the most data-rich websites on the planet. Millions of tables containing everything from country populations to sports statistics to historical timelines. Yet when you try to scrape these tables programmatically, things go wrong f...4d ago·7 min read
gauchogrid.hashnode.devParsing HTML Tables Is Harder Than You ThinkWhen I started building HTML Table Exporter, I thought parsing tables would be the easy part. Tables are structured data, right? Rows and columns. How complicated could it be? Three months later, I had a folder called edge-cases with 47 test files an...Feb 13·8 min read
gauchogrid.hashnode.devHow I Built a Chrome Extension to Export Any Web Table (And What I Learned)Last month I shipped HTML Table Exporter, a Chrome extension that detects HTML tables on any webpage and exports them to CSV, Excel, JSON, or SQL with one click. This post covers the technical decisions, the gotchas I didn't expect, and what I'd do d...Feb 9·5 min read
