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title: "Intelligent AI Web Scraper in Excel with Python (xlwings Lite)"
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# Intelligent AI Web Scraper in Excel with Python (xlwings Lite)

Tell it what to extract - fields, filters, rules - all in plain English.

Live Tool. Paste a URL list. The app extracts the fields you asked for, applies your transforms, filters and any data cleaning instructions. And updates structured data in Excel, URL status, error logs, and a 30-KPI scraping dashboard.

## What Intelligence does

You can share instructions in conversational English.

* **Filter:** "Don't include any records from Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi"
* **Select:** "If there are multiple phone numbers, just keep the first one."
* **Normalize:** "If a state is abbreviated (e.g., UP), replace with the full name (e.g., Uttar Pradesh)."
* **Derive:** "Combine first name and city into a unique ID. No spaces. All caps."

## How it works

[Jina.ai](http://jina.ai/) fetches the text from URL. Gemini extracts and transforms. xlwings Lite runs it all. Control LLM Intelligence by tweaking LLM parameters: topP, temperature, max tokens, and thinking budget. Configure scrape parameters like request delays, max retries and timeout settings. Non-deterministic by default. For stricter pulls, add a Python parser layer or a hybrid. Select LLMs by use case: cheap-fast for volume, slower-stronger for precision.

## How to customize

I use it as-is for common client scrapes and customize for tougher cases. To customize, hand the code to your AI Coder with change requests. Examples: switch to OpenAI or Anthropic, capture images, follow child URLs, add a python parser step. The foundation is xlwings Lite. I've documented my process and examples in the xlwings Practice Lab: [xlwings-lite.tigzig.com](http://xlwings-lite.tigzig.com). Refer to my blog posts (links below) on choosing an AI Coder.

## Live Tool, Source Code & Docs

Built with xlwings Lite by [Felix Zumstein](https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-zumstein/) ([lite.xlwings.com](http://lite.xlwings.com))

## Resources

[AI Coder Instruction file for xlwings Lite](https://www.tigzig.com/post/which-ai-coder-should-you-use-for-xlwings-lite-python-in-excel)


xlwings Lite official site: [lite.xlwings.org](https://lite.xlwings.org)