# Read tables from an HTML page

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read an XML or HTML file](https://meridian.online/operations/read-an-xml-or-html-file).

Pull the tables, or elements picked by CSS selector, out of an HTML page as rows.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-an-xml-or-html-file/read-tables-from-an-html-page>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-an-xml-or-html-file)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Duckle: [`HTML`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/frontend/src/workflow-ui/palette-data.ts) (read 2026-09-25)
- Power Query M: [`Html.Table`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`Web.Page`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`html (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/html.py#L25) (read 2026-09-23)