The Scenario
You're a data scientist who runs weekly analysis on the SHARADAR/SEP daily price table. Your pipeline downloads the full dataset every Monday. The problem is that "download the full dataset" currently means opening the Nasdaq Data Link portal, clicking through to the bulk export, waiting for the ZIP to generate, copying the URL, and pasting it into the config file for your pipeline. It's three minutes of manual work that happens before anything automated starts.
The bad version:
- Log into the Nasdaq Data Link portal, navigate to the SHARADAR/SEP datatable page.
- Click "Bulk Download," wait for the export status to show "Fresh" or "Creating," copy the ZIP URL from the page.
- Paste the URL into your pipeline config and note the timestamp — then forget to update the doc that tracks export history, and find out next week that your colleague ran the same export without knowing you'd already done it.
Three minutes of manual work, multiplied by every Monday, adds up to a whole week of your year spent copying URLs.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It calls the Nasdaq Data Link bulk export endpoint, retrieves the download link and status, and writes both into your sheet — so your pipeline config reads from a cell rather than a clipboard.
Request a bulk export of the SHARADAR/SEP datatable from Nasdaq Data Link and write the download link and file status (fresh/creating) into my sheet so I can retrieve the full dataset
What You Get
- Cell B1: the ZIP download URL for the SHARADAR/SEP bulk export
- Cell C1: the export status ("fresh" if the file is current, "creating" if it's still generating)
- Cell D1: the timestamp of when the export was requested, written as ISO 8601
- If the export is still generating, a note that the URL will be valid once status changes to "fresh"
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to trigger exports for multiple datatables and log all of them
You need SEP, SF1, and TICKERS refreshed each week.
For each datatable code in column A of my sheet (SHARADAR/SEP, SHARADAR/SF1, SHARADAR/TICKERS), request a bulk export from Nasdaq Data Link and write the download URL, export status, and request timestamp into columns B, C, D on the corresponding row
The export status is "creating" and you want to check again and update the status cell
Check the bulk export status for the Nasdaq datatable whose download URL is in cell B1 and update cell C1 with the current status
You want the export link written into a specific named range rather than a fixed cell
Request a bulk export of the SHARADAR/SEP datatable from Nasdaq Data Link and write the download URL into the named range "SEPDownloadLink" and the status into "SEPExportStatus" in my sheet
You want to trigger the export, log it, and flag whether it's ready for the pipeline in one shot
Request a bulk export of the SHARADAR/SEP datatable from Nasdaq Data Link — write the download URL into cell B1, the status into cell C1, and the request timestamp into cell D1 — then write "Ready" in cell E1 if status is "fresh" or "Pending" if status is "creating"
The pattern: trigger, log, and status-flag in one prompt so the pipeline can read a single cell to decide whether to proceed.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet you use as a pipeline config, then ask it to trigger a SHARADAR bulk export from Nasdaq Data Link and write the download URL directly into the sheet. You can also look at the spoke on documenting datatable schemas or the Nasdaq overview.