The Scenario
The spreadsheet has been sitting on your desk since Monday. Column A holds 150 competitor product URLs your team assembled over two weeks of research. Columns B through E are headers — Title, Description, Content Summary, Price — with nothing below row 1.
Your manager wants the table populated before the strategy call Thursday morning.
The bad version:
- Open URL 1, scan the page, locate the meta description, copy it, switch tabs, paste into B2, find the price if it exists, paste into E2, go back, next URL
- By URL 40 you are no longer sure you are copying from the right field on every page — layouts differ, some pages have prices in three different places, one site has a popup blocking the content
- By URL 90 you have spent four hours and the data quality is inconsistent because you were tired by row 60 and started making shortcuts
Nobody hired you to hand-transcribe product data from 150 browser tabs. That is not the analysis. That is the prerequisite to the analysis, and it is eating the entire week.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the URL list in column A, understands that columns B through E are the output targets, and through its built-in ZenRows integration it can run the scraping job and populate all four columns in a single pass.
Scrape every URL in column A using ZenRows autoparse and populate this Excel sheet with page title, description, and detected price in columns B, C, and D
What You Get
- Column B: page title as it appears in the HTML title tag or primary heading
- Column C: meta description text, or the first paragraph if no meta description is present
- Column D: detected price string if one is found on the page, left blank if none
- Any URL that ZenRows cannot reach gets a note in the adjacent cell rather than a silent gap
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some URLs redirect to a login wall or error page
For each URL in column A, use ZenRows auto-parse to scrape the page — if the page returns a login prompt or error status, write "blocked" in column B and leave C through E empty
The price format varies — some show USD, some show EUR, some have no currency symbol
Scrape each URL in column A with ZenRows and write the detected price into column D — standardize to USD if a conversion can be inferred from page context, flag ambiguous formats with a question mark
You want to skip URLs that already have data in column B
For each row in column A where column B is empty, use ZenRows auto-parse to scrape the page and populate columns B through D — leave rows with existing data untouched
Run a full cleanup pass before populating
For each URL in column A, first check whether it redirects — note the final destination URL in column F — then use ZenRows auto-parse on the final URL to extract title, description, and price into columns B through D, and flag any rows where the final URL differs from the original
One prompt. The scraping, the redirect resolution, and the field extraction happen together.
Try It
Open an Excel workbook with a URL list in column A and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI. Ask it to fill in the product data from those pages. Then see the CSS selector extraction spoke for when you need to target specific HTML elements rather than relying on auto-parse.