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 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.

• xpath_query – The XPath query to be run on the structured data.

  • For more information on XPath, see http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp.
• 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 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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