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Practical, honest guides on turning any website into a spreadsheet — how to scrape to Excel, CSV and Google Sheets, export HTML tables, follow pagination and infinite scroll, and scrape responsibly. Every guide shows the manual way and the fast way with ScrapeSheet.

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Scrape a product catalog to CSV for a shop or ERP import

Turn your own store or a supplier's catalog (with permission) into an import-ready CSV: fields, variants, image URLs, and clean prices.

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Track competitor prices in Excel: a weekly snapshot workflow

A weekly price snapshot workflow in Excel: dated CSV files, one Power Query, % change and gap formulas, and alerts for every price cut.

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Price scraper in Google Sheets: build a Black Friday price tracker

Track prices in Google Sheets before Black Friday and Cyber Monday: IMPORTXML, a dated history, the 30-day low, and a check on "was" prices.

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Excel Get Data from Web: what it does well and where it fails

What Excel's From Web connector does well, where it breaks on JavaScript pages, pagination, and sign-ins, and when an extension fits better.

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SEC EDGAR data to Excel: pull filing tables into a spreadsheet

Get SEC EDGAR filing tables into Excel: the built-in workbook, single tables, official bulk data, and SEC's fair-access rules.

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Wikipedia table to Excel: 4 ways, and which keeps columns clean

Four ways to move a Wikipedia table into Excel or Google Sheets, which one keeps the columns clean, and how to credit the data.

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How to export an HTML table to CSV

Three ways to turn an HTML table into a clean CSV, plus how to avoid encoding, delimiter, and quoting problems.

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How to scrape a website to Excel

Four honest ways to get web data into Excel, from copy-paste and Power Query to a two-click extension, with the trade-offs of each.

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Is web scraping legal?

Robots.txt, terms of service, personal data and the GDPR, copyright, and how to scrape responsibly. General information, not legal advice.

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How to scrape multiple pages (pagination and infinite scroll)

Numbered pages, "Load more" buttons, and infinite scroll each need different handling. Here is how to collect every result in one export.

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How to scrape data into Google Sheets

IMPORTHTML and IMPORTXML for static pages, and extract-then-import for pages the formulas cannot reach.

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