Web Data Studio v1.5.5 — TXT Export Stops Losing Your Links, Images & Video

Web Data Studio v1.5.5 — TXT Export Stops Losing Your Links, Images & Video

Assets: v1.5.5.zip

This release fixes a data-loss bug in the Web tab's TXT export and brings the Preview pane's TXT (and Markdown) view up to par with how HTML preview already worked.

🐛 Fixed

• TXT export no longer silently drops images and link URLs. Previously, buildPageText() stripped every link down to plain text with no URL at all, and dropped images entirely. Now every link/image/video is preserved as an inline <https://...> reference — e.g. Some link text <https://example.com>, [Image: alt] <https://...jpg>, [Video] <https://...mp4> — so the information survives into the actual saved .txt file.

✨ Added

• Video support in full-page export. readable-blocks.ts gained a video block type, extracted from <video> elements with src/poster resolved to absolute URLs. Markdown export now embeds these as playable <video controls> elements right in the sandboxed preview.
• Rich TXT preview. The Preview pane now scans TXT content for <url> references (and bare URLs) and renders each as the right thing based on file extension: an inline image thumbnail, a playable video, a rounded file-chip (with icon) for downloadable files like PDF/ZIP/DOCX, or a plain clickable link otherwise.
• Live preview while editing. Markdown and TXT previews now live-update as you type in the Text view — no need to save or reopen to see the rendered result, matching how HTML preview already behaved.

🔧 Changed

• Heading uppercasing in TXT export now skips <url> references, since URLs are case-sensitive.
• The Excel "Page Content" fallback sheet now handles the new video block type.

📚 Docs

• Updated the root README.md (version badge + Web tab Export section) and src/sidepanel/README.md (preview-text.ts module notes) to document the above.

Full Changelog: See CHANGELOG.md

v1.5.0 — Full-Page Web Export

A big upgrade to the Web tab: export the entire current page — not just a picked element — in one click, with a live visual preview and an editable text view before you save.

✨ Highlights

• 🌐 Full-Page Export — export the whole page to Excel (.xlsx), CSV, PDF, Markdown, HTML, or TXT, with no need to select anything first
• 👁️ Live visual preview for every format — a real spreadsheet-style grid for Excel/CSV (row numbers, column letters, sticky headers), the browser's native viewer for PDF, and sandboxed rendering for Markdown/HTML
• ✏️ Editable Text view — toggle to see and edit the raw output for any format; your edits are what get copied or re-saved
• 📊 Smart Excel export — one worksheet per detected table on the page, falling back to a single "Page Content" sheet when no tables are found
• 🗂️ Smart CSV export — every detected table listed individually with its own Preview button, plus a standing "Full page content" entry and an Export all (.zip) option
• 📄 Full-page PDF capture — images, backgrounds, links, and tables preserved, with an estimated page count and file size shown
• 📝 Markdown/HTML rendering — sandboxed preview via the bundled marked parser, so formatting can be checked before saving
• 🔒 No new permissions, no server round-trips — everything still builds and saves locally in the browser

📦 Installation

1. Download dist.zip from this release's Assets.
2. Unzip it.
3. Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
5. Pin the extension and press Ctrl+Shift+D to open Web Data Studio.

🗺️ What's next

Planned for future releases: Automation Studio, a Workspace/template manager, an advanced Data Transformation Studio, JSON Studio (schema + model code generation), a plugin system, AI-assisted detection and cleaning, and ODS/database export targets. See the README roadmap for details.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KEHEM-IT/WebDataStudio/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Web Data Studio - v1.0.0

🧩 Web Data Studio v1.0.0

The first stable release of Web Data Studio — a visual web data extraction and transformation platform for Chrome. Pick, preview, clean, and export data from almost any webpage, all locally in your browser.

✨ Highlights

• 🔍 Smart Detection — automatically finds native tables, semantic lists, and repeated card/grid patterns on any page, and recognizes popular grid libraries (AG Grid, Tabulator, Handsontable, Kendo Grid, DataTables, Bootstrap Table, PrimeVue, Vuetify, Element Plus, Ant Design, MUI)
• 🎯 Visual Element Picker — a DevTools-style inspector overlay to hover and click-select any element on the page
• 📋 Live Preview & Cleaning — an editable preview table with one-click trim, remove-duplicate-rows, and case conversion (UPPER/lower/Title)
• 🖼️ File & Resource Extractor — finds every image, video, and audio file on a page and lets you zip-download the selection, all in-browser
• 📤 Export Studio — export to JSON, JSON Lines, CSV, TSV, Markdown, HTML, XML, YAML, or SQL INSERT statements
• 🕘 History — every extraction is saved locally for quick re-export without re-scanning
• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+D (open), Ctrl+Shift+P (picker), Ctrl+Shift+E (quick export)
• 🧱 Built on Manifest V3 with a background service worker, content script, popup, and a dockable Chrome Side Panel UI — strict TypeScript, no framework runtime

📦 Installation

1. Download dist.zip from this release's Assets.
2. Unzip it.
3. Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
5. Pin the extension and press Ctrl+Shift+D to open Web Data Studio.

🗺️ What's next

Planned for future releases: Automation Studio, a Workspace/template manager, an advanced Data Transformation Studio, JSON Studio (schema + model code generation), a plugin system, and AI-assisted detection and cleaning. See the README roadmap for details.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KEHEM-IT/WebDataStudio//commits/v1.0.0