Web Scraping Made Easy With Google Sheets

Learn how to perform basic web scraping using Google Sheets. Since this technique is not scalable, for anything advanced, you’d have to rely on professional solutions, such as the ones offered by Oxylabs 👉 https://oxy.yt/Qig3

Web scraping with Google Sheets can be an effective technique. While most ways of web scraping require you to write code, web scraping with Google Sheets requires no coding or add-ons. All you need to do is use a built-in function of Google Sheets. Thus, it acts as a basic web scraper.

Follow this detailed video tutorial to learn how you can extract website data directly to Google Sheets, dive deeper into several related functions, hear about the most common errors you might encounter, and much more.

Sources used in the tutorial:

👉 https://books.toscrape.com/
👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
👉 https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Technology.xml
👉 https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/apportionment/apportionment.csv


For you convenience, we also have this step-by-step guide covered in a blog post as well as GitHub:

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How to Scrape Multiple Website URLs With Python
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In this video, Liza covers the following:

00:00 Introduction
00:26 Why use Google Sheets for web scraping?
00:46 When should you think of using it?
01:11 Importing XML and HTML
02:38 IMPORTXML and XPath intro
03:51 Extracting data from a website to Google Sheets
05:06 Related functions
05:42 Importing a table from a website to Google Sheets
06:27 Importing data from XML feeds to Google Sheets
07:09 Customizing data imported by IMPORTFEED
07:49 Importing data from CSV to Google Sheets
08:12 Does the data stay fresh?
08:32 Advantages and drawbacks of import functions
09:12 Common errors
10:03 Conclusion

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