The Problem with Getting Icypeas Data Into Your Google Sheet
You have a list of target companies, a pile of inbound sign-up emails, or an ICP definition living in your head, and you need contact data, verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, or company intelligence pulled into a Google Sheet so you can actually work with it.
Icypeas is a capable tool. The email discovery is fast, the verification is reliable, and the coverage across professional databases is broad. But actually moving that data from Icypeas into your spreadsheet is more work than it should be. The usual flow is search in the Icypeas web app, copy what you need, open your sheet, organize it, repeat. For one prospect it is fine. For 500 rows, or for a workflow that runs every time a new campaign starts, it breaks down fast.
Below are the four ways people typically get Icypeas data into a Google Sheet. Only the last one scales.
Method 1: Export a CSV From Icypeas and Import It Manually
The default path. You run your search or enrichment job in the Icypeas web app, download the results as a CSV, open Google Sheets, and import the file. Then you delete the columns you do not need, rename the ones you do, and make it fit your existing sheet layout.
When this works:
- You are doing a one-time pull for a campaign that will not repeat
- Your sheet does not already have rows you need to match the results against
- You have fewer than a few dozen records and the manual cleanup is quick
When it breaks:
- You need to enrich rows that are already in your sheet, name and domain columns in column A and B, email needed in column C
- You have multiple enrichment passes to run, email discovery, then verification, then LinkedIn lookup, and they all need to land in the right row
- The campaign runs weekly and you are importing a new CSV every Monday
- Someone else owns the sheet and your import overwrites their work
The core problem is the data lands in its own sheet, not your sheet. Merging imported CSVs with an existing prospect list by hand is tedious and error-prone once you get past a handful of rows.
Method 2: Use Zapier or Make to Pull Icypeas Data When a Row Changes
The next step up is automation. You build a Zap or Make scenario that fires when a new row appears in your sheet, calls the Icypeas API to look up the email or LinkedIn profile for that row, and writes the result back.
This works for event-driven moments:
- New inbound lead added to your CRM sheet → immediately find and verify their email
- New company added to your target list → run a domain scan automatically
- New candidate record created → fetch their LinkedIn profile
This fails for batch or analytical work:
- Running enrichment on 500 rows that already exist in the sheet
- Counting leads available in Icypeas for a list of market segments before deciding which to pursue
- Any job where you want to review the results before they write into the sheet
- Cross-referencing found emails against a verification column in the same run
Event-driven automation runs one row at a time. It does not look at the sheet as a whole, it does not batch, and it does not chain steps like "find email, then verify it, then write both results back." You also pay per task in most automation platforms, and at 500 rows that adds up quickly.
Method 3: The Previous Generation, Connector Add-Ons for Google Sheets
Until recently, the best option for pulling external data into a spreadsheet on a repeatable basis was a category of connector add-ons that let you configure a data import directly from the sidebar. You authenticated with the data source, picked your fields, mapped them to columns, and saved the configuration. When you needed fresh data, you ran the import again.
That was a real step up from downloading CSVs. The output landed in the right columns, the configuration was reusable, and once someone set it up the team could run it without thinking about the API.
But you were still responsible for a lot. The field mapping, the column layout, the filter logic about which records to pull, the order of operations when chaining multiple enrichment steps. The connector moved bytes, but the thinking was still on you. And when Icypeas added a new field you wanted, or when you restructured your sheet, someone had to go back into the configuration and redo it.
This is the category we think of as the previous generation. It worked, but it asked a lot of the operator.
The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Google Sheets
There is a different approach entirely. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your sheet, understands what data is already there, and through its built-in Icypeas integration it can run email discovery, verification, LinkedIn lookups, company searches, domain scans, and bulk enrichment jobs, then write the results back into exactly the right columns. No configuration, no mapping, no CSV import, you just ask.
Example 1: Enrich an Existing Prospect List With Verified Emails
You have 400 prospect rows already in your sheet: first name in column A, last name in column B, company domain in column C. You need verified work emails before the campaign goes out.
Take every row in this sheet (columns A through C: First Name, Last Name, Domain), run an Icypeas bulk email search, then verify each found email, and write the email address, confidence score, and verification status into columns D, E, and F.
SheetXAI reads the columns, calls Icypeas to find and verify emails row by row, and writes the results back in place. Your original data stays intact, and each enriched column lands exactly where you told it to. If twenty rows came back as invalid, you can immediately ask SheetXAI to filter them out or flag them in a status column, without leaving the sheet.
For a full walkthrough of this workflow, see the bulk email enrichment guide.
Example 2: Build a Prospect List and Push It to Your CRM in One Prompt
You do not always start with rows already in the sheet. Sometimes you need to build the list from scratch using Icypeas company or people search, then send it somewhere.
Search Icypeas for CTOs at Series A to B SaaS companies in Germany with fewer than 300 employees. Write their name, company, domain, and any found email into this sheet starting at row 2. Then find and verify the email for any row where the email column is blank. Finally, create a contact record in HubSpot for each row where the email is verified.
SheetXAI runs the search, writes the results into the sheet, runs verification on the gaps, and then pushes verified contacts to HubSpot. The sheet is the working layer between tools, holding the data at each step so you can inspect it before anything goes to your CRM. One prompt, three tools, no manual work in between.
Which Method Should You Use
If you need a one-time export and your sheet does not already have rows you need to enrich, downloading a CSV from Icypeas and importing it is fine. For event-driven work where every new row in your sheet should immediately trigger a lookup, a Zapier workflow is a reasonable fit, provided your volume is low enough that per-task pricing does not sting.
For anything that involves enriching rows that already exist, chaining multiple Icypeas operations together, building lists from search criteria and immediately acting on them, or running the same enrichment workflow regularly, SheetXAI is the only option that does it in one prompt without configuration. The breadth of what Icypeas offers, email discovery, verification, LinkedIn profile lookup, reverse email lookup, company search, people search, domain scan, LinkedIn scraping, lead counting before you spend credits, is easier to use when you can describe what you want in plain language rather than configuring each operation separately.
If you run enrichment on more than a handful of rows per week, the time saved on the second batch covers the cost of the trial.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with prospect names and domains. Ask SheetXAI to find and verify emails using Icypeas, then watch it write the results back row by row. The Icypeas integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. See the bulk email enrichment walkthrough or browse the full integrations directory.