Summary & Key Takeaways ​

• Introduces a new web tool for extracting HTML tables from rich text.
• Supports conversion to HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, and JSON formats.
• Designed for easy data extraction from browser-pasted content.
• Features integration with Wikipedia's CORS API for direct page content import.
• Builds on previous work, like the Rich text to Markdown tool.
• Aims to simplify data handling from web pages.

Our Commentary ​

Simon Willison just dropped another one of his incredibly useful, hyper-focused tools. We're always impressed by how he spots these little friction points in web workflows and just... builds a solution. This HTML table extractor is exactly that – a simple, effective answer to a common data-wrangling headache. The Wikipedia CORS API integration is a particularly clever touch; it's the kind of practical, no-fuss feature that makes a tool genuinely indispensable for certain tasks. I mean, who hasn't wrestled with copying tables from a webpage? This just makes it work.