Get a table off a website and into Google Sheets

Why does copy-paste mangle tables?

Paste transfers formatting rather than structure, so merged cells, line breaks inside cells and currency symbols all shred on the way to the clipboard. A companion reads the rendered page and emits explicit rows against columns you named: company, plan, monthly price as a number, seats included.

Because it runs in your own browser, the reachable set includes the tables that matter most and export worst: analytics dashboards, supplier portals, admin panels of tools you pay for. The broader question is covered in can AI extract data from websites to a spreadsheet.

A 14-page member directory, 320 rows

A trade association directory: 320 firms across 14 pages.

Each row carries a name, city, specialty and profile link, with the phone number one click deeper on the profile page. The ask is all of it in a sheet, one row per firm, phone included.

The companion pages through the directory extracting the four visible fields, visits each profile for the phone number, and writes 320 rows to a new sheet once you approve. Firms with no phone get an empty cell and a count in the summary: 17 profiles had no phone. Your time is the prompt, one approval and a two-minute spot-check of five rows. Same pattern at length: scrape a directory into Google Sheets, and the analyst-grade version is mapping a whole market in an afternoon.

How do you check 320 rows in two minutes?

Ask for the row count and the not-found tally with the results, then spot-check five rows against the live page. Every value carries the URL it came from, so five rows buys most of the confidence in the other three hundred. Where a site publishes an official export, the companion takes that route instead, because it is the cleanest input available.

The sweep reads at the pace and volume of a signed-in person, inside each site’s terms, which is what keeps it welcome on the sites you depend on. Tens of rows to a few thousand is where the copy-paste afternoons live. The Google Sheets integration page covers where the results land.

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