Hello everyone! I have a Google Sheets document filled with real estate listing URLs that I collected while house hunting. I want to create a map visualization from this data, but I need to extract the actual street addresses from these URLs first.
The property URLs contain the address information within the link structure itself. I need help creating a formula that can automatically pull out the address portion and display it in an adjacent column.
I’ve tried looking for solutions online but haven’t found anything that works for my specific case. Since I’m pretty new to Google Sheets formulas, I would really appreciate any guidance or examples you could share. Thanks so much!
Had the same issue scraping property data last year. Your approach depends on how the URLs are structured - Zillow, Realtor.com, and local MLS sites all do it differently. Most real estate URLs follow predictable patterns though. Zillow uses /homedetails/123-Main-St-City-State-12345/ while others use query parameters. You’ll need REGEXEXTRACT and SUBSTITUTE functions combined. First, examine your URL patterns closely. Look for delimiters like hyphens, underscores, or slashes that separate address parts. Then build a REGEXEXTRACT formula targeting that specific pattern. If you’re pulling from multiple sites, you’ll need different formulas for each. Pro tip: some URLs have property IDs or extra parameters that’ll break your extraction. Test your formula on a small sample before running it on your whole dataset - learned that one the hard way.
Many real estate URLs encode addresses weirdly - spaces become plus signs or %20. Hit this issue building a property database. You’ll probably need URLDECODE before parsing if you’re seeing strange characters. Apartment numbers and unit designations will mess up your extraction too. I always create a test column first, manually clean a few examples to spot the pattern, then work backwards to build the formula. Sometimes MID and FIND functions work better than complex regex - just grab text between specific markers.
This gets tricky depending on your URL format. Try the SPLIT function first - it’s way easier than regex for beginners. Something like =SPLIT(A1,"/") should work if your addresses sit between slashes. Then just use SUBSTITUTE to swap out dashes for spaces. Way simpler than diving into regex.
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