Importfromweb

| Parameter | Description | | :--- | :--- | | url | The full web address (e.g., "https://example.com/data" ). | | data_type | What to extract: "table" , "list" , "json" , "html" , or "auto" . | | selector | CSS selector or XPath (e.g., "table.price-table" , "div.results" ). | | options | Advanced settings: headers, pagination, caching, timeout. |

| Industry | Use Case | Why importFromWeb Wins | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Consolidate stock prices, interest rates, or crypto from multiple news portals into one spreadsheet. | Eliminates manual copy-paste; refreshes with a single click. | | E-commerce | Competitor price monitoring across 100+ product pages. | Handles dynamic class names and pagination without writing a scraper. | | Supply Chain | Tracking shipping statuses from carrier websites using tracking numbers. | Can log in, submit forms, and extract status tables automatically. | | Journalism/Research | Aggregating public records, election results, or sports stats from multiple government or league websites. | Schema detection normalizes inconsistent HTML into clean rows. | | Data Engineering | Ad-hoc ETL from legacy web portals that lack APIs. | Serves as a lightweight ingestion layer before transformation. | importfromweb

To use this tool, you must first install it from the Google Workspace Marketplace . | Parameter | Description | | :--- |