The Scenario
You are a knowledge manager. Your company ran on Coda for three years. Now the team is migrating to a new wiki platform, and before the cutover, someone has to get the content out.
You have 30 Coda specification pages that need to move. The migration tool your new wiki uses accepts Markdown. Each page's Markdown content needs to land in a Google Sheet, one row per page, so the migration team can review and edit before import.
The bad version:
- You open the first Coda page, click the export option, save as Markdown, open the file, copy the content, open the sheet, paste into column B
- You go back to Coda, open the next page, repeat
- By page eight the formatting is inconsistent because Coda's export options changed between versions
- By page nineteen you paste the wrong page's content into the wrong row
- The migration team finds three mismatches on day one and you spend an afternoon tracing them.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that exports Coda page content as Markdown and writes it into the sheet without you opening a single page in the Coda UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each Coda page ID in column A of this sheet, export the page content as Markdown and write it into column B. Write the page title into column C.
SheetXAI iterates through column A, calls the Coda API for each page ID, exports the content as Markdown, and writes it into columns B and C. Thirty rows, thirty Markdown exports, zero manual steps.
What You Get
A migration-ready sheet with one row per Coda page:
- Column A — Coda page ID (what you already had)
- Column B — full page content as Markdown
- Column C — page title pulled from Coda
The content is exported at prompt time from the live Coda pages. If a page was edited this morning, you get today's version, not a cached snapshot.
The migration team can open the sheet, read column B, and paste each block into the new wiki. Or they can pass it to an import script that reads the sheet row by row.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Markdown exports are rarely ready for migration without some cleanup. SheetXAI handles it in the same prompt.
When Coda page IDs are mixed in with blank rows
The sheet has some rows set aside for pages not yet ready to migrate, marked with a "Hold" flag in column C.
For each row in this sheet where column C is NOT 'Hold', export the Coda page content for the ID in column A as Markdown and write it into column B. Skip rows where column C says 'Hold'. Write 'SKIPPED' into column B for those rows.
When Markdown headers use the wrong level for the new wiki
Your new wiki renders Coda's H1 headers as page titles, so the exported Markdown should start at H2.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown. Then shift all heading levels down by one — replace any lines starting with '# ' with '## ', '## ' with '### ', and so on. Write the adjusted Markdown into column B and the page title into column C.
When you need a word count alongside the content for prioritization
The migration team wants to know which pages are long enough to warrant a detailed review and which can be spot-checked.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown and write it into column B. Count the number of words in the exported content and write that count into column D. Sort all rows by word count descending after writing.
When you need the full export plus a summary of broken internal links
Coda internal links become broken after migration. You want to identify and flag them before the cutover.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown and write it into column B. Scan the Markdown in column B for any links that start with 'https://coda.io'. Write a list of those links into column E for each row. If there are no internal links, write 'None' in column E. This gives the migration team a checklist of links to update.
The pattern: export, clean, annotate. You do not export first and clean in a separate pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with Coda page IDs in column A, then ask it to export the content as Markdown. The Coda integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to generate a Coda doc inventory report or the Coda in Google Sheets overview.