{"id":41095,"date":"2026-05-21T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/tool-built-an-api-to-instantly-extract-any-public-html-table-or-wikipedia-page-into-a-clean-json-data-matrix\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:27:07","slug":"tool-built-an-api-to-instantly-extract-any-public-html-table-or-wikipedia-page-into-a-clean-json-data-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/tool-built-an-api-to-instantly-extract-any-public-html-table-or-wikipedia-page-into-a-clean-json-data-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"[Tool] Built An API To Instantly Extract Any Public HTML Table Or Wikipedia Page Into A Clean JSON Data Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\">r\/datasets<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I got tired of manually copying data tables or dealing with messy HTML structures when trying to feed data into my personal scripts and models.<\/p>\n<p>To solve this, I built and hosted a lightweight cloud API that automatically scrapes public web pages, isolates the tables\/data grids, and packages everything into an organized, nested JSON matrix.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share it here for anyone looking to automate their data gathering pipelines. I set up a free testing tier on <a href=\"https:\/\/rapidapi.com\/\">RapidAPI<\/a> that gives you 50 free requests a month to play around with it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidapi.com\/patcicci4\/api\/housing-and-wikipedia-data-scraper\">https:\/\/rapidapi.com\/patcicci4\/api\/housing-and-wikipedia-data-scraper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you test it out or have any feedback on extra features I should add to the parser!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Cyclonefan444\"> \/u\/Cyclonefan444 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1tjx2xg\/tool_built_an_api_to_instantly_extract_any_public\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1tjx2xg\/tool_built_an_api_to_instantly_extract_any_public\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41095 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41095' data-nonce='bc39e8310e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41095 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41095 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey r\/datasets, I got tired of manually copying data tables or dealing with messy HTML structures when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}