The Scenario
You are a content migration specialist. The company is moving from Confluence to a new platform and your workbook starts with 50 Confluence page IDs in column A. Before any migration work can begin, the new platform team needs the full text of each page, title, body, and space, pulled into the workbook for review and reformatting.
The migration window opens in four days. The workbook is in a shared OneDrive folder.
The bad version of the next four days:
- Open the first Confluence page by ID, copy the title, switch to Excel, paste it into column B
- Copy the page body, paste into column C, deal with the formatting collapse
- Note the space in column D by hand
- Repeat 49 more times
- By page 25, you mis-paste two bodies into the wrong rows without noticing
- Finish on day three with errors scattered through the workbook and no time to audit them.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads the ID column and fetches the page content from Confluence directly into the workbook, without you opening a single page.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each page ID in column A, fetch the Confluence page title and plain-text body content and write them to columns B and C. Also write the space key into column D.
SheetXAI calls Confluence once per row and fills the workbook. All 50 rows are complete before you have finished your first review pass.
What You Get
A complete content extract in the workbook:
- Column B — page title
- Column C — plain-text body content
- Column D — space key
- 50 rows — each fetched from Confluence without manual navigation
The content is in the workbook. From here, review pages for migration readiness, flag ones that need rewriting, or pass the workbook to the developer running the import.
If you need HTML source rather than plain text, change the prompt. SheetXAI returns either format.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Migration lists always have surprises. SheetXAI handles them in the same prompt.
When some IDs are invalid or pages have been deleted
Pages get deleted between when the list was compiled and when the migration runs.
For each page ID in column A, try to fetch the Confluence page title and body. If the page is not found or access is denied, write "not found" into column B. Otherwise write the title into column B and the plain-text body into column C.
When you need last-modified dates to prioritize the migration
The migration lead wants to start with recently modified pages.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the page title, plain-text body, space key, and last-modified date. Write them into columns B, C, D, and E. Sort the results by last-modified date descending in a new "Sorted" tab.
When you want to flag stub pages before migrating them
Some pages are placeholder stubs with fewer than 50 words. You want to flag them before the migration team picks them up.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the page title and plain-text body. Write them into columns B and C. Count the words in column C and write the count into column D. Flag any page with fewer than 50 words in column E as "stub."
When you need to extract content and re-create pages in a new hierarchy immediately
The migration involves restructuring the content hierarchy. Each page needs to be re-created under a new parent page ID listed in column B.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the Confluence page title and plain-text body and write them into columns C and D. Then create a new Confluence page under the parent ID in column B using the fetched title and body as the content. Write the new page URL into column E.
The pattern: extract the content and act on it in the same prompt. You do not have to close the workbook and run a second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with Confluence page IDs you need to extract, then ask it to pull the content. The Confluence integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to bulk-update Confluence page content from an Excel workbook or the Confluence in Excel overview.