The Scenario
It is Sunday evening. Your team is about to kick off a 1,000-URL scraping run first thing Monday. The last large batch hit a credit wall at row 600 and stopped. Nobody caught it until two hours later when the results worksheet still had 400 blank rows.
You need to know: how many requests are left in this billing period, what the concurrent request limit is, and whether the current plan supports the run volume. That information is in Scrape.do's account dashboard — which you would have to open in a browser and read off manually.
The bad version:
- Open the Scrape.do account portal in a browser
- Navigate to the usage or billing section
- Read off the subscription plan, monthly limit, requests used, requests remaining, and concurrency cap
- Type each value into the monitoring workbook by hand
- Repeat this check every time someone wants to know the current state before a large run
Four fields. Manual. Every time. For a piece of data that should live in the workbook automatically before any large run kicks off.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It talks to Scrape.do's account API directly and writes the usage summary into whatever row or range you point it at — no browser tab needed.
Get my Scrape.do account usage stats and populate my Excel dashboard worksheet with fields: Plan, MonthlyLimit, RequestsUsed, RequestsRemaining, ConcurrentLimit.
What You Get
- The dashboard worksheet populates with: plan name, monthly limit, requests used, requests remaining, concurrent limit
- Values are numeric where applicable — no formatting that breaks downstream formulas
- If the API call fails (bad token, network issue), a descriptive error lands in the first cell so you know what went wrong
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want the data written into a labeled format rather than a flat row
Fetch my Scrape.do account usage data and write it into the Dashboard worksheet. Put the label in column A and the value in column B: Plan, MonthlyLimit, RequestsUsed, RequestsRemaining, ConcurrentLimit. Start from row 2.
You want a timestamp alongside the usage data
Fetch my Scrape.do account usage stats and write them into row 2 of the Usage worksheet: timestamp of this check, plan, monthly limit, requests used, requests remaining, concurrent limit. Use columns A through F. Append a new row each time rather than overwriting row 2.
You want a warning flag when remaining credits are low
Fetch my Scrape.do account usage and write plan, monthly limit, requests used, and requests remaining into columns A through D of row 1. In column E, write "Low credits" if requests remaining is below 5,000 and "OK" otherwise.
Full pre-run check in one shot
Fetch my Scrape.do account usage stats. Write plan, monthly limit, requests used, remaining, and concurrent limit into the PreRunCheck worksheet row 1. In column F, calculate what percentage of the monthly limit has been used. In column G, write "Safe to run" if remaining requests exceed the number of URLs in column A of the Main worksheet, or "Insufficient credits" if not.
One prompt checks capacity against the actual job size — no mental math required.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook you use to track scraping runs, then ask it to pull the current Scrape.do usage stats and populate the dashboard row. See also the spoke on async batch scraping for large URL lists, or the hub overview for all Scrape.do workflows.