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IMPORTHTML

Category: Google Sheets compatibility function

Extracts a table or list from a web page.

Syntax

=IMPORTHTML(url, [search], [index], [locale])

Arguments

Argument Required Description
url Required web page URL
search Optional "table" (default) or "list" (ul/ol)
index Optional which occurrence to extract, 1-based (default 1)
locale Optional locale for number parsing, e.g. "de-DE"

Returns

Returns a web-page table (2-D array) or list (N-by-1 array) as a spilled array; numeric text is auto-converted. A missing URL, a search value other than "table"/"list", or index below 1 gives #VALUE!; a download failure or no table/list at that index gives #N/A.

Examples

Formula Result Description
=IMPORTHTML("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel","table",1) result depends on the page

Notes

  • The page is parsed with MSHTML after removing