README
Guide to Using Google Sheets for Basic Web Scraping
- What is IMPORTXML
- How to extract data from a website to Google Sheets
- Other related functions
- Import table from website to Google Sheets
- Import data from XML Feeds to Google Sheets
- Customizing data imported by IMPORTFEED
- Importing Data from CSV to Google Sheets
- Does the data stay fresh?
- Common Errors
- Errors related to volatile functions
Google Sheets can be a very effective tool for web scraping. While most ways of web scraping require you to write code, web scraping with Google Sheets needs no coding and or add on. All you need to do is use a built-in function of Google Sheets.
This guide will give an overview you how to scrape website data with Google Sheets.
If you want to learn more, see our blog post.
What is IMPORTXML
IMPORTXML is a function that can import data from various data types.
If you want to extract the title element from the Quotes to Scrape web page, the formula would be as follows: