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How to extract website links with SheetSteps AI

Collect hrefs, anchor text and link types from public pages, then normalize and deduplicate them for research or SEO review.

JosephineWritten by JosephinePublished July 27, 2026Last updated July 28, 202612 min
Extract website links into Google Sheets — SheetSteps
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Extract each link as a organized record containing source URL, href, anchor text and link type. Resolve relative paths against the final page URL, remove fragments when appropriate and deduplicate only after preserving the source page relationship.

The useful version of this workflow is not a fragile formula that appears to work once. It is a repeatable process with explicit inputs, a known output schema and a visible status for every URL.

This guide shows how to turn webpage links into a clean spreadsheet table. It uses the actual SheetSteps AI flow: preview first, hosted extraction, a queued batch when the range is large, and confirmed write-back into Google Sheets.

Extract website links into Google Sheets spreadsheet used in this article
A working sheet built for this article. The numbers are sample data.
HOW IT WORKSFrom URL list to reviewed rows
URLSstore.example/astore.example/bstore.example/c
STATIC FETCH→SMART RENDERING
WHEN NEEDED
STRUCTURED OUTPUTTitlePriceStatus3 rows ready
SheetSteps previews the schema, runs the hosted extraction, tracks each row and asks before writing into populated cells.
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INSTRUCTIONS

How to extract website links with SheetSteps AI

  1. 01
    Choose the source pages

    Use a focused URL set and preserve the source URL on every extracted link row.

  2. 02
    Extract organized link fields

    Request href, visible anchor text, rel attribute and link type.

  3. 03
    Normalize destinations

    Resolve relative URLs, remove obvious tracking parameters and keep the original href for audit.

  4. 04
    Inspect the preview

    Check the proposed columns, sample entries, extraction mode and destination before starting the job.

  5. 05
    Run and monitor the job

    Use the Jobs view to follow progress, pause or cancel the run, and inspect row-level failures.

  6. 06
    Confirm write-back

    Review the destination range and approve the write. Existing populated cells are not silently overwritten.

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WEB SCRAPING

Use one row per source-to-destination relationship

The same destination can appear on many pages and with different anchor text. Keep source URL, destination and anchor together before deduplicating.

SheetSteps LINKS can return page links for focused checks, while a organized batch can expand links from many source pages into a normalized table.

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WEB SCRAPING

Normalize without destroying useful evidence

Resolve /pricing against the final source domain and standardize obvious trailing-slash or fragment variations. Preserve the raw href in a separate column when auditing implementation.

Classify links as internal, external, mail, telephone or unsupported before status checking.

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WEB SCRAPING

Keep extraction and crawling separate

Extracting links from supplied pages is different from crawling an entire website. The current core workflow operates on controlled URL ranges and does not promise an unrestricted site crawler.

For a larger URL set, preview sample pages, run the hosted queue and retry only failed sources.

  • Source URL
  • Raw href
  • Resolved destination
  • Anchor text
  • rel attribute
  • Internal/external type
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COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions people ask

Can Google Sheets extract all links from a page?＋

IMPORTXML can extract href attributes from simple static HTML. SheetSteps also provides a LINKS function and organized batch extraction.

Why keep the source URL?＋

A destination alone does not show where the link was found or which page needs editing.

Does this crawl an entire website automatically?＋

No. The core workflow extracts from controlled URL ranges; it is not an unrestricted unattended crawler.

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