EmbedTable Catcher in-browser table extractor
One-click extraction of table data trapped inside iframes, virtual lists, and Canvas
- Problem
- Everyday work is full of data locked in iframes, paginated lists, virtual scrolling, or Canvas-rendered tables. Copy-paste fails and writing a scraper is overkill. A developer already shipped a Chrome extension covering iframes, pagination, and some Canvas cases, confirming this is a real, frequent pain.
- Solution
- A browser extension that auto-detects tables, iframes, and virtual lists on a page, with preview, column selection, and export to CSV, TSV, JSON, or XLSX, all processed locally with no upload. Add dedicated adapters for known heavy cases like Feishu sheets.
- Users
- Operations staff, analysts, finance, and office users who need to pull data out of internal admin systems
- MVP
- Detect plain HTML tables and tables inside iframes; crawl paginated and virtual lists incrementally; export CSV, TSV, JSON, and XLSX; fully local processing with no upload; dedicated adapters for one or two high-frequency sites
- Revenue
- Free basic tier plus paid advanced features (Canvas support, batch export, scheduled scraping); or a one-time purchase
- Why now
- Enterprise backends increasingly render tables with Canvas and virtual lists where copy and scraping both fail, and browser extensions are a form factor an indie dev can ship and polish quickly