Excel Spreadsheet Automation on ZeroBounce Data with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for ZeroBounce provides formulas that can query ZeroBounce data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search ZeroBounce data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following:

=CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

• Query: The declaration of the ZeroBounce data records you want to retrieve, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as APIConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to ZeroBounce data, separated by semicolons.

  Using API Key Authentication

  ZeroBounce uses API key authentication. To obtain an API key:

  1. Log in to your ZeroBounce account at https://app.zerobounce.net
  2. Navigate to the API tab in your account dashboard
  3. Copy the API key displayed on the page

  After obtaining your API key, set the following connection properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  Set the following in the ProfileSettings connection property:
  • APIKey: Set this to your ZeroBounce API key.

  Example Connection String

  Profile=C:\profiles\ZeroBounce.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings="APIKey=your_api_key";
  

• ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search ZeroBounce data, such as .
2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.

=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Credits WHERE  = '"&B5&"'","Profile="&B1&";AuthScheme="&B2&";ProfileSettings="&B3&";Provider=API",B6)


3. Change the filter to change the data.