The Scenario
You are a content migration specialist. The company is moving from Confluence to a new platform. Your list starts with 50 Confluence page IDs in a Google Sheet, column A. Before you can migrate anything, you need the full text of each page, the title, the body, and the space it belongs to, pulled into the sheet for review.
The migration window opens in four days.
The bad version of the next four days:
- Open the first Confluence page by ID, copy the title, paste it into the sheet
- Copy the page body, paste it into column B, reformat where Confluence stripped the newlines
- Note the space name in column C by hand
- Repeat 49 more times
- By page 20 you have lost two tabs, mis-pasted one body into the wrong row, and cannot remember if you already did page ID 84712
- You finish on day three with a sheet full of errors and no time to fix them.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads the ID column and fetches the page content from Confluence directly into the sheet, without you opening a single page.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each page ID in column A, fetch the Confluence page title and plain-text body content and write them to columns B and C. Also write the space key into column D.
SheetXAI calls Confluence once per row, extracts the content, and writes it into the sheet. You have all 50 rows filled in before you have finished your first review pass.
What You Get
A complete content extract in the sheet:
- Column B — page title
- Column C — plain-text body content
- Column D — space key
- 50 rows — each fetched from Confluence without manual navigation
The content is in the sheet. From here you can review pages for migration readiness, flag ones that need rewriting before the move, or pass the sheet to a developer who will run the import into the new platform.
If you need the HTML source rather than plain text, change the prompt. SheetXAI can return either format.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Migration lists always have surprises. SheetXAI handles them in the same prompt.
When some IDs in the list are invalid or deleted
Pages get deleted between when the list was made and when the migration runs. You need to know which IDs are dead before you start the formal migration.
For each page ID in column A, try to fetch the Confluence page title and body. If the page is not found or access is denied, write "not found" into column B. Otherwise write the title into column B and the plain-text body into column C.
When you also need the last-modified date for migration prioritization
The migration lead wants to start with pages that have been modified recently, on the theory that stale pages can wait.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the page title, plain-text body, space key, and last-modified date. Write them into columns B, C, D, and E. Sort the results by last-modified date descending in a new "Sorted" sheet tab.
When the content needs a quick quality scan before migration
Some pages are known to be placeholder stubs with fewer than 50 words of content. You want to flag those before migrating them.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the page title and plain-text body. Write them into columns B and C. Count the words in column C and write the count into column D. Flag any page with fewer than 50 words in column E as "stub."
When you need to extract content and immediately re-create pages in the new structure
The migration involves restructuring the hierarchy. You need the old content plus a new parent page ID for each page.
For each page ID in column A, fetch the Confluence page title and plain-text body and write them into columns B and C. Then create a new Confluence page under the parent ID in column D using the fetched title and body as the content. Write the new page URL into column E.
The pattern: extraction and action in the same prompt. You do not have to review the sheet, close it, and run a second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet of Confluence page IDs you need to extract, then ask it to pull the content. The Confluence integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to bulk-update Confluence pages from a sheet or the Confluence in Google Sheets overview.