IMPORTXML

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

Sample Usage

IMPORTXML("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing", "//a/@href")

IMPORTXML(A2,B2)

Syntax

IMPORTXML(url, xpath_query, locale)

  • url - The URL of the page to examine, 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.
  • xpath_query - The XPath query to run on the structured data.

  • locale - A language and region locale code to use when parsing the data. If unspecified, the document locale is used.

See Also

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

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

IMPORTFEED: Imports a RSS or ATOM feed.

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

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