IMPORTHTML

Imports data from a table or list within an HTML page.

Sample usage

IMPORTHTML("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India","table",4)

IMPORTHTML(A2,B2,C2)

Syntax

IMPORTHTML(url, query, index)

• url – The URL of the page to be examined, including protocol (e.g. http://).

  • The value for url must either be enclosed in quotation marks or be a reference to a cell containing the appropriate text.

• query – Either "list" or "table", depending on what type of structure contains the desired data.

• index – The index, starting at 1, which identifies which table or list as defined in the HTML source should be returned.

  • The indices for lists and tables are maintained separately, so there may be both a list and a table with index 1 if both types of elements exist on the HTML page.

See also

IMPORTXML: Imports data from any of various structured data types including XML, HTML, CSV, TSV and RSS and Atom XML feeds.

IMPORTRANGE: Imports a range of cells from a specified spreadsheet.

IMPORTFEED: Imports an RSS or Atom feed.

IMPORTDATA: Imports data from a given URL in .csv (comma-separated value) or .tsv (tab-separated value) format.

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