Instant Data Scraper is a popular Chrome extension for quick table exports. It works great on simple HTML tables. It fails completely on the sites most people actually need to scrape in 2026. Here's the technical reason why — and what to do about it. Why Instant Data Scraper breaks on modern sites IDS works by reading the DOM at page load time. It looks for <table> elements and repeating list structures in the raw HTML. The problem: most modern web apps don't render data in the initial HTML. They render a shell, then populate it with JavaScript after the page loads. By the time IDS reads the DOM, the containers are empty.…