Posted 3/25/2024, 10:45:13 AM
AI and Spreadsheets Team Up to Simplify Web Scraping for Anyone
- Scraping data from webpages used to require technical skills, but tools like Google Sheets and AI chatbots now make it more accessible
- IMPORTXML is a Google Sheets formula that can extract data from webpages into a spreadsheet
- ChatGPT can suggest IMPORTXML formulas to scrape specific data from pages, though it struggled to extract some complex data itself
- Combining ChatGPT and IMPORTXML extracted 300 articles' titles, authors, URLs, and descriptions from 10 pages quickly
- The best workflows integrate multiple tools like AI, spreadsheets etc. rather than relying on just one - they play to the strengths of each