The Scenario
You're a content strategist at a SaaS agency and you inherited a sheet from someone who left last month. Column A has 50 competitor blog post URLs. The note in the handoff doc says "use these for keyword gap analysis." It does not explain how.
You know you need the body text from each page — not the nav, not the footer, not the cookie banner. Clean article content. The kind of thing you'd read in a browser. You need it in column B so you can run a keyword frequency pass across the whole set.
The bad version:
- Open the first URL in a browser. Select all, paste into a text editor, manually delete the header, sidebar, related posts section, and footer.
- Repeat for each of the 50 URLs.
- Notice that three of them redirect to 404 pages and you have no way to track which rows those correspond to anymore.
The report is already overdue and nobody hired you to copy-paste HTML.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It reads the column of URLs, calls Tavily's extraction endpoint for each one, and writes the clean page content back — with error handling included.
For each URL in column A (rows 2 through 51), use Tavily to extract the page content and write the clean body text into column B. If a URL returns an error or can't be fetched, write "EXTRACT FAILED" in column B and the error reason in column C.
What You Get
- Column B filled with clean article body text for each URL, ready for keyword analysis.
- Failed or redirected URLs flagged in column B with "EXTRACT FAILED" — column C shows the error type (404, timeout, blocked).
- No nav or footer content — Tavily's extraction returns the main body only.
- Rows where column A is blank are left untouched.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some URLs in column A are duplicates or have tracking parameters that should be stripped
Deduplicate the URLs in column A (remove rows with the same base URL, ignoring query parameters and UTM tags), then use Tavily to extract the clean body text for each unique URL and write it to column B.
You only want content from URLs on a specific domain listed in column D
For each URL in column A where the domain matches the value in column D of that row, extract the page content using Tavily and write it to column B. Leave other rows blank.
The extracted text is too long — you only need the first 500 words for a quick pass
Use Tavily to extract the body content from each URL in column A and write only the first 500 words into column B. Flag any URL that returned less than 100 words by writing "SHORT" in column C.
Full dedup, extraction, and length filter in one shot
Strip tracking parameters from all URLs in column A, remove duplicate base URLs, then use Tavily to extract clean body content from each remaining URL. Write the first 500 words into column B. Flag failed extractions as "EXTRACT FAILED" in column B and short content (under 100 words) as "SHORT" in column C.
The deduplication, extraction, and flagging all happen in sequence — one prompt, no intermediate steps.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a column of URLs, then ask it to extract clean page content for every row using Tavily. Or see the related workflow for mapping competitor site structure and the hub overview.