The Scenario
Every Monday morning you ship a watchlist report to three colleagues on the research team. The sheet lives in Google Sheets: column A is the coin symbol, columns B through F are price metrics you pull from elsewhere. But there's a gap that's been bugging you for weeks — you have no fast read on which coins are event-dense in the near term.
You've been eyeballing CoinMarketCal manually for the ones that seem interesting. That's three or four minutes per coin, and your watchlist has 30 entries.
The bad version:
- Open CoinMarketCal, filter to the next 14 days, search for coin #1, count the events that show up, type that number into column B of your sheet.
- Repeat 29 more times, hoping you don't lose count or accidentally skip a coin.
- Go back and fix the three coins where you typed the number into the wrong row because you switched windows mid-sequence.
Thirty lookups. One column. An hour of work that generates zero insight on its own — it's just the raw input for the analysis you haven't started yet.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI lives inside your Google Sheet and talks to CoinMarketCal directly. Give it the task in plain language and it does the lookups for you.
For each coin symbol in column A of my 'Watchlist' sheet, count the number of CoinMarketCal events scheduled in the next 14 days and write that count into column B; write 'N/A' if the coin isn't found
What You Get
- Column B populated with integer event counts, one per coin in column A.
- Any coin that CoinMarketCal doesn't recognize gets 'N/A' rather than a blank or a zero — so you know the lookup ran and came up empty, not that it silently failed.
- Coins with zero events in the next 14 days get 0, not blank — preserving the distinction between "no events found" and "lookup didn't run."
- The existing data in columns C through F is untouched.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want event counts broken out by category, not just a total
A single count doesn't tell you whether those events are listings (which move price) or community meetups (which often don't):
For each coin symbol in column A of my 'Watchlist' sheet, fetch CoinMarketCal events in the next 14 days. Write the total event count into column B, listing-category count into column C, and mainnet-category count into column D. Write 'N/A' for any coin not found.
Some symbols in your list are duplicates or need normalization
If your watchlist has been built up over time, there's a decent chance a few coins appear under slightly different names:
Deduplicate the coin symbols in column A of my 'Watchlist' sheet (case-insensitive), then for each unique symbol count CoinMarketCal events in the next 14 days and write the count back into column B next to the first occurrence of each symbol; mark duplicates in column C as 'duplicate of [symbol]'
You want to flag the high-density coins automatically
After populating the counts, you want the report to call out the coins with 3 or more events — the ones worth discussing in Monday's brief:
For each coin in column A of my 'Watchlist' sheet, count CoinMarketCal events in the next 14 days and write the count into column B. Then, in column C, write 'High' if the count is 3 or more, 'Medium' if it's 1-2, and 'None' if it's 0 or N/A.
Full watchlist enrichment with historical validation in one pass
The kill chain: normalize symbols, pull upcoming counts, pull a historical reference count, and flag anything anomalous.
Deduplicate and normalize coin symbols in column A of my 'Watchlist' sheet. For each unique coin, pull CoinMarketCal event counts for the next 14 days (write into column B) and the previous 90 days (write into column C). In column D, flag coins where the next-14-day count exceeds their average 2-week rate from the 90-day history by more than 50% — write 'Elevated' or 'Normal'.
The pattern: when cleanup, retrieval, and analysis are in one prompt, you get a finished column instead of three separate tasks that each have to be re-triggered.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your watchlist sheet with coin symbols in column A, then ask it to count upcoming CoinMarketCal events for each coin and write the results into the next column. Also see how to pull upcoming events for your full portfolio or return to the CoinMarketCal overview.