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Generate Sidetracker QR Codes for Every URL in a Excel

2026-05-14
5 min read

The Scenario

Your field-marketing manager has an Excel workbook with 40 offline campaign landing page URLs. The print vendor needs a trackable QR code for every one of them by 5 PM today. The codes have to be Sidetracker QR codes — not generic generators — so the campaign data flows back into your analytics.

The bad version:

  • Open the Sidetracker QR code generator, paste in the first URL, configure the tracking parameters, copy the generated QR code image URL, switch back to the workbook, find the right row, paste it into the QR Code URL column.
  • Repeat for URL 2. Then URL 3. After URL 8, you start questioning the life choices that led here.
  • Finish all 40, hand the workbook to the print vendor, realize URL 22 was pasted into the wrong row, and start auditing.

Nobody hired you to be a copy-paste machine for 40 QR codes. The print run can't slip.

The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI

SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the URLs you already have, calls Sidetracker's QR code API for each one, and writes the result back into the correct column — all in one shot.

Read all 40 URLs in my Excel 'Landing Pages' table, call Sidetracker to create a trackable QR code for each one, and fill the QR Code URL column with the results. Write any errors into the Status column.

What You Get

  • The QR Code URL column populated with a Sidetracker QR code URL for every row that has a URL in the Landing Pages table.
  • The QR code URLs are the actual trackable links from Sidetracker — tied to your account, visible in your analytics dashboard.
  • If any URL causes an API error (malformed URL, rate limit, etc.), the Status column for that row gets the error message so you can fix and re-run just the failures.
  • Row order preserved exactly as-is — the print vendor's layout stays intact.

What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready

Some URLs are missing the https:// prefix

For every URL in the Landing Pages column of my Excel 'Landing Pages' table, add the https:// prefix if it's missing, then generate a Sidetracker QR code for each corrected URL and write the QR code URL into the QR Code URL column.

I have URLs across three different worksheets that all need QR codes

Generate a Sidetracker QR code for every URL in the Landing Pages column of worksheets 'Spring Campaign', 'Summer Campaign', and 'Fall Campaign'. Write each QR code URL into the QR Code URL column of the same worksheet it came from.

I need to deduplicate URLs before generating codes — some are repeated

Check the Landing Pages column of my Excel 'Landing Pages' table for duplicate URLs. For duplicates, generate the QR code only once and copy the same QR code URL into all matching rows in the QR Code URL column. Note which rows share a code in the Status column.

I need to clean the URLs, generate codes, and format the workbook for the vendor handoff in one pass

For every URL in the Landing Pages column of my Excel 'Landing Pages' table: strip any trailing slashes, remove UTM parameters from the raw URL, generate a Sidetracker QR code for the cleaned URL, write the QR code URL into the QR Code URL column, and write the cleaned base URL back over the original. Highlight the QR Code URL column in light green to flag it as ready for the vendor.

One prompt handles URL normalization, QR code generation, writeback, and visual formatting — no intermediate steps.

Try It

Open your campaign landing page workbook — URLs in one column, the QR Code URL column waiting — and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI. Ask it to generate Sidetracker QR codes for every row, and the vendor-ready column fills in while you get started on the next task. See also: auditing all your Sidetracker lists and the Sidetracker hub overview.

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