I want to import central banks interest rates into google sheets. The table I'm using can be found here:
=importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1)
For each items that I want from this table, I would have a function like (in this example, to fetch 1.00%):
=value(substitute(index(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1),2,3),",",""))
If I need this whole table, which consists of 12 rows (excluding header) x 4 columns, I would have 48 such formulas. It seems to me that:
- this is messy, and
- making 48 calls to the investing.com URL where one could probably suffice.
So I decided to try a different approach. In another tab of my google sheets, I call the whole table:
In my other tab, I thought to query this table (assume it is in a tab called rates) instead. But I don't know how. Is there a way, and if so, what is the correct way to query say:
- the first name in the table (Federal Reserve (FED))?
- the fourth interest rate in the table (-0.75%)?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
CodePudding user response：
To get 1%, try
=index(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1),2,3)
adapt parameters to fetch
- the first name in the table (Federal Reserve (FED))
=index(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1),2,2) - or the fourth interest rate in the table (-0.75%)
=index(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1),5,3)
To get all % per banks at once
=query(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1),"select Col2,Col3",1)
CodePudding user response：
The answer he gave you Mike Steelson is good, but if I were you, I would make it in such a way that I could change the parameters at any time
=query(importhtml("https://www.investing.com/central-banks","table",1);"select Col2 WHERE (Col3='"&$A1&"')",1)
where A1 = 1.00% or any number entered into that cell