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    <p>I've got a simple HTML page (generated by an external application) that contains a table view. I am trying to scrape off the tables from the page and put them in an Excel workbook. I have managed to put the whole HTML contents in a workbook by using the method available <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6955627/export-dynamic-html-table-to-excel-in-javascript-in-firefox-browser">here</a>.</p> <p>Code from the related question:</p> <pre><code>var tableToExcel = (function() { var uri = 'data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,' , template = '&lt;html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;&lt;x:ExcelWorkbook&gt;&lt;x:ExcelWorksheets&gt;&lt;x:ExcelWorksheet&gt;&lt;x:Name&gt;{worksheet}&lt;/x:Name&gt;&lt;x:WorksheetOptions&gt;&lt;x:DisplayGridlines/&gt;&lt;/x:WorksheetOptions&gt;&lt;/x:ExcelWorksheet&gt;&lt;/x:ExcelWorksheets&gt;&lt;/x:ExcelWorkbook&gt;&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;table&gt;{table}&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;' , base64 = function(s) { return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s))) } , format = function(s, c) { return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function(m, p) { return c[p]; }) } return function(table, name) { if (!table.nodeType) table = document.getElementById(table) var ctx = {worksheet: name || 'Worksheet', table: table.innerHTML} window.location.href = uri + base64(format(template, ctx)) } })() </code></pre> <ul> <li><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/insin/cmewv/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JSFiddle </a></li> </ul> <p>The method however does not support multiple spreadsheets. What I need is for every HTML table being in it's own SpreadSheet in the same Excel workbook. Something like this: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XXDLW.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>I have tried to create a sample Excel document with two spreadsheets and then reverse engineer it by looking at an export in .html format. Unfortunately I failed to understand how to recreate the connection betwee a workbook and it's sheets.</p> <p>As far as I can understand the <code>format()</code> function does the 'magical' combining of the worksheet data and the Excel template. The function looks very cryptic to me, so I have no idea how to go about modifying it.</p> <p>What I need as an end game is having the possibility to call something like. <code>tableToExcel(document.getElementsByTagName('table'), 'Workbook Name');</code></p> <p>Any ideas if this is at all possible, and if so - how to go about making it happen?</p>
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