Numbers and HTML tables

First off, let me say Hey, I'm new, I'm Jared... thanks to everyone who puts in effort to help people on these forums and I'll be publicly grateful for any assistance. As one who is involved in a great deal of community support I know the effort it takes and y'all rock.

Now my issue 😉 : Has anyone figured out a way to get Numbers to turn an HTML table into a spreadsheet without some sort of external script? Does anyone have such an external script?

I'm so bummed I could cry... I've been going thru a great deal of culture shock having been an Excel user for many years and switching to Numbers a while back. Having been in IT and software development for the last 16 years, I came to rely on Excel to be able to split any delimited data into columns on the fly based on my own random delimiter. I also came to rely on Excel to be able to convert any table-style input to a spreadsheet format. Because of these two factors, Excel has been one of my go-to tools over the years for all sorts of analysis.

Enter Numbers... finally, Apple's putting out a spreadsheet! YAY! Oh, ****, wait... hrm. The two main features that make Excel useful to me aren't there.

I have lots of friends that have switch to OS X in the last year, and I've chewed them all out for saying "But in Windows I could..." as they were transitioning. "You're not ON Windows, this is different, get used to it and do what THIS does. Forget Windows... other than knowing how to use a mouse and a keyboard, very little will transfer from one to the other." The problem is that now I'm finding myself sorely tempted to do something similar. "But with Excel I could..!" Ugh!

PS - I exaggerated about crying, but not by much. 😉