The Web Scraper alternative that stays in your browser
One click, clean Excel, nothing uploaded. No account to create, no monthly plan to cancel — just the table you were looking at, exported.
Web Scraper (webscraper.io) is genuinely powerful. If you need to build point-and-click selector sitemaps and crawl through pagination across a whole site, it does that well, and its browser extension is free and runs locally.
The catch is where its headline automation lives. Scheduled runs, scaling, and running jobs without your browser open happen in Web Scraper Cloud — which needs an account and a monthly subscription, and executes your jobs on their servers. Table to Excel takes the opposite path: one click, 100% local, no account, no subscription.
To be fair: for complex, recurring scraping across many pages, Web Scraper is the better tool. But for the far more common job — “grab this table right now and get clean Excel” — Table to Excel is dramatically simpler. This page is about simplicity, staying local, and owning it once, not about being better at everything.
Table to Excel vs. Web Scraper
A quick, honest side-by-side for the “just export this table” job.
| Table to Excel | Web Scraper | |
|---|---|---|
| Login required | No | Yes for Cloud (account required); local extension is free |
| Subscription | No — €39 one-time | Yes — Cloud plans are monthly (free extension is local-only) |
| Data stays in your browser | Yes | Local extension yes; Cloud runs on their servers |
| Price | €39 one-time (free up to 100 rows) | Free local extension / paid monthly Cloud |
Why switch
If your job is a table today, not a scraping pipeline forever.
- ✓ One click, not selector-building Open the page, hit export, get clean Excel. No sitemap to design first.
- ✓ Stays on your device Your pages and exports never leave the browser — nothing is uploaded to anyone's servers.
- ✓ No cloud account No sign-up, no email to hand over, no plan to remember to cancel.
- ✓ Own it once €39, one time — free up to 100 rows per export so you can try it before you buy.
Grab your table now
Free to try — no card required. Buy once when you need unlimited rows.