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How to scrape page data using the ImportXML function in Google Sheets

Posted by: Vin Pillai, Posted on: 22 December 2015 - Categories: Google Sheets

...I wanted to be able to scrape when those pages were last updated in order to sort them based on the most recent update. The last updated information is found...

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