Macro Request: Get table from web page and save as CSV file

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The GUI route to getting a copyable selection can take a little bit of slightly viscous dragging and selection boundary fiddling on a large webpage table.

Doing it with this table prompted me to sketch a simple 'extend selection to whole table' macro for Safari and Chrome:

Extend selection to whole table in Safari or Chrome

Copying a whole table from a web page can involve some fiddling with extending the selection and getting its boundaries right. Here's a first draft of a simple macro for Safari and Chrome: select a little text in one cell of a table on a web page trigger the macro to extend the selection to the whole table. ( I haven't added a ⌘C to go ahead and copy, but I guess you could – perhaps with a pause to allow the selection to complete ? ) ( Works on the few tables I tested it with, but let me kn…