Yes - you can run one inside Excel with xlwings Lite (Python in Excel). Paste a list of URLs, describe what you want in plain English, and it writes clean structured data back to the sheet along with per-URL status, error logs and a scraping dashboard. The instructions are conversational: filter ("drop records from Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi"), select ("keep only the first phone number"), normalize ("expand UP to Uttar Pradesh"), derive ("combine first name and city into an all-caps ID, no spaces").
How it works: Jina.ai fetches the page text, an LLM (Gemini) does the extraction and transforms, and xlwings Lite runs the whole thing in Excel. You control quality by tuning LLM parameters (topP, temperature, max tokens, thinking budget) and scrape parameters (request delays, retries, timeouts). It is non-deterministic by default; for stricter pulls add a Python parser layer or a hybrid, and pick cheap-fast LLMs for volume, slower-stronger for precision. It is open source - hand the code to your AI coder to switch to OpenAI/Anthropic, capture images, or follow child URLs.
Post + live tool: https://www.tigzig.com/post/intelligent-ai-web-scraper-in-excel-with-python-xlwings-lite. Guides + instruction file: xlwings-lite.tigzig.com. Related: which AI coder to use for xlwings https://www.tigzig.com/agents-faq/which-ai-coder-for-python-in-excel-xlwings.
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