How to extract URL from Link in Google Sheets using a formula?

Question

I have copied from a website a series of hyperlinks and pasted them in a google sheet. The values show up as linked text, not hyperlink formulas, and are still linked correc

Answer 1

Found an answer that works on Google Groups (by Troy):

1. Publish your spreadsheet (copy the url)
2. Create a new spreadsheet and use IMPORTXML function (replace the url with the url you get in step 1)
3. You will get the data - you can then copy and paste the values where you need them
4. Unpublish the spreadsheet (if you do not want it public)

Could be done by Script, but I have no time now. :)

Answer 2

I was able to solve this for Jotform in a very simple way.

I was looking to include the Edit link in a query, but it would only give me the text "Edit Submission."

However, I noticed that I had the form ID in Column R. I was then able copy the JotForm link and combine it with the cell reference "https://www.jotform.com/edit/"&R2

Answer 3

You can use importxml to pull in the whole data table and it's contents with this:

=IMPORTXML(A1,"//tr")

next to it we pulled in the url strings in the tags

=IMPORTXML(A1,"//tr/td[1]/a/@href")

and finally concatenated the strings with the original domain to create your hyperlinks

=ARRAYFORMULA("http://www.bnilouisiana.com/"&INDIRECT("A2:A"&COUNTA(A2:A)))