Imports data from any of various structured data types including XML, HTML, CSV, TSV, and RSS and ATOM XML feeds.

Sample Usage

IMPORTXML("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing", "//a/@href")

IMPORTXML(A2,B2)

Syntax

IMPORTXML(url, xpath_query)

• url - The URL of the page to examine, including protocol (e.g. http://).

  • The value for url must either be enclosed in quotation marks or be a reference to a cell containing the appropriate text.

• xpath_query - The XPath query to run on the structured data.

  • For more information on XPath, see http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp