I thought importxml should work but as you can see, I get nonsense. As many as 10% of the lookups return no match.
#Pagination webscraper zip#
Column AB however, accesses the table in sheet 2 “Master 5-Digit…” which includes 33000+ zip codes but actually excludes quite a few. Column C, the assigning state is easy – populates 100% of the time.
#Pagination webscraper code#
My file is a publicly available NARA (National Archives) file download formatted and expanded with formulas, etc.Ī couple “index/match” formulas in column C & column AB lookup the state that assigned each SSN and the city state corresponding to the person’s zip code at the time of death. The xpath-query, looks for span elements with a class name “byline-author”, and then returns the value of that element, which is the name of our author.Ĭopy this formula into the cell B1, next to our URL: We’re going to use the IMPORTXML function in Google Sheets, with a second argument (called “xpath-query”) that accesses the specific HTML element above. In the new developer console window, there is one line of HTML code that we’re interested in, and it’s the highlighted one: This brings up the developer inspection window where we can inspect the HTML element for the byline: New York Times element in developer console Hover over the author’s byline and right-click to bring up the menu and click "Inspect Element" as shown in the following screenshot: New York Times inspect element selection
But first we need to see how the New York Times labels the author on the webpage, so we can then create a formula to use going forward. Note – I know what you’re thinking, wasn’t this supposed to be automated?!? Yes, and it is. Navigate to the website, in this example the New York Times: New York Times screenshot Let’s take a random New York Times article and copy the URL into our spreadsheet, in cell A1: Example New York Times URL Grab the solution file for this tutorial:įor the purposes of this post, I’m going to demonstrate the technique using posts from the New York Times.
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