Spreadsheets and documents

Google Sheets

The fastest route from documents to something a finance team will actually use. One formula, and the sheet keeps itself current.

1. Under Outbound, add a Google Sheets integration.
2. Copy the generated formula.
3. Paste it into any cell of your sheet.

=IMPORTDATA("https://parsli.co/api/parsers/{id}/feed?token={token}&format=csv")

Every extracted document appears as a row. New documents appear on their own — the sheet refreshes whenever Google Sheets recalculates, with no webhook, no script, and no manual export.

No Google authorisation is required. The formula reads a Data feed — a plain CSV URL. Nothing is granted access to your Drive.

Because the feed is ordinary CSV over HTTP, anything that can read a URL can consume it — Excel's web query, a Python script, a BI tool. Google Sheets is just the easiest client.

When Sheets is the wrong choice

Very high volume. IMPORTDATA re-reads the whole feed each refresh, so a sheet backed by tens of thousands of documents gets slow. At that point use a Webhook into a database and point the BI tool at that.

Google Docs

Creates a formatted Google Doc for each extracted document, with fields, tables, and metadata laid out in readable sections.

1. Under Outbound, add a Google Docs integration.
2. Connect Google Drive.
3. Optionally give a folder to file them in.

Useful when the output is meant to be read rather than analysed — summaries, reports, case notes. For anything you intend to filter or total, use Sheets.

Filled Spreadsheet → Drive

For when you have an XLSX template that must be filled in — a form, a return, an internal report with a fixed layout.

Rather than giving you rows to copy across, Parsli fills your actual template from the extracted data and uploads the completed file to your Drive.

1. Under Outbound, add Filled Spreadsheet → Drive.
2. Upload the template.
3. Connect Drive.

Every processed document produces a filled copy.

This suits the case where the shape of the output is fixed by someone else — a regulator, a client, a system that only accepts one layout. If you just want the data, Sheets is simpler.

Choosing