Daily website scraper that builds a Google Sheet history
Every morning we pull the latest items from a web page you choose and log them to a Google Sheet with the run date, building a clean history for you.
Every morning at 6am (keep the schedule configurable), scrape a structured listing page and append each item as a new row to a Google Sheet so I build a dated history automatically. This is a deterministic capture with no interpretation or summarization: fixed selectors go in, rows come out, one run per day, and the sheet accumulates a clean time series.
Use Browserless Scrape Elements to extract structured JSON from the fully rendered target page using CSS selectors. Make the target URL configurable, and define a selector-to-column map so each field maps to a named column, for example product name, price, and availability, or the title, location, and date of a job or event listing. Because Browserless renders JavaScript, selector-based extraction works on dynamic sites that a plain HTTP fetch would miss. Pull one record per item on the page.
If Scrape Elements returns no matching elements, skip the run and write nothing so the sheet never logs empty or junk rows. Only continue to the Google Sheets step when there is at least one matched item.
For each matched item, use Google Sheets Append Values to add a new row after the last row of the destination sheet. Map each scraped field to its column following the selector-to-column map, and include a run-date column set to the date the workflow ran. Append only, never overwrite existing rows, so past records stay intact and history accrues.
Keep the target URL, the selector-to-column map, the schedule, and the destination spreadsheet and sheet configurable. The sheet's columns should match the selector map plus the run-date column.
Additional information
What does this prompt do?
- Visits a web page you choose each morning and pulls out the items on it, like products and prices, job posts, event listings, or leaderboard entries.
- Adds every item as a new row in your Google Sheet, tagged with the date it was captured.
- Only ever adds rows, so your past records stay intact and a dated history builds up over time.
- Skips the day quietly if the page has nothing to capture, so you never get blank or junk rows.
What do I need to use this?
- A Browserless account so we can open and read the page for you, even on sites that load their content dynamically.
- A Google account and a Google Sheet where the history should collect.
- The web address of the page you want to track, plus a short list of which details to capture from each item (like name, price, and availability).
How can I customize it?
- Change the time it runs (the default is 6am) or how often, from daily to weekly.
- Point it at any page and choose which details to capture and which column each one lands in.
- Send the rows to a different sheet or add extra columns, like a source link alongside the run date.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of pages can this track?
Will it overwrite my existing data?
What happens if the page has nothing on it that day?
Do I need to know how to code?
How do I know when each item was captured?
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Turn any web page into a daily spreadsheet history.
Set it up once and let your Google Sheet fill itself with a clean, dated record every morning.