SPREADSHEET FULL OF IMAGE LINKS
Download images from Excel
Drop in a spreadsheet and get every picture it points to, saved together in one ZIP. Works with image links sitting in cells and with pictures embedded in the workbook itself.
Drop a spreadsheet here, or browse
XLSX, XLS or CSV. The file itself is never uploaded anywhere
Reading the spreadsheet
Frequently asked questions
Drop the spreadsheet on the tool. It reads every sheet, finds any image links sitting in the cells plus any pictures pasted into the workbook, downloads the lot, and packs everything into a single ZIP.
Yes, for XLSX files. An XLSX is really a container with the pictures stored inside it, so they come straight out with no network request needed at all. That path never fails. Older XLS files store pictures a different way, so only their links can be used there.
Because the site hosting that image said no. A browser can only fetch a file from another website when that website allows it, and plenty of image hosts do not. This trips up every tool that works this way, not just this one. Every link that failed gets listed at the end so you can copy the whole batch in one go.
No. The file gets opened and read inside your browser, on your own device. The only requests that leave your machine go to the image links themselves, straight from your browser to whichever site hosts each picture.
XLSX, XLS and CSV, all of them. Column layout does not matter, since every cell in every sheet gets scanned rather than hunting for one named column.
No fixed limit, though a genuinely huge batch takes longer and eats more memory, since everything sits in the browser until you save the ZIP. A few hundred images is comfortable on a normal computer.
Each picture keeps whatever name sat at the end of its link. If two pictures share a name, a number gets tacked on so nothing overwrites anything. Embedded pictures are numbered in the order they show up in the workbook.
Pull every picture out of a spreadsheet in one go
Spreadsheets full of image links turn up constantly. A product export from an online store, a supplier catalogue, a scraped list of listings, a content plan with a thumbnail on every row. Saving those by hand means opening each link, right clicking, choosing a folder, and doing it again a few hundred times. My honest opinion: that is not a task, it is a punishment.
This reads the whole workbook, gathers every image it can find, fetches all of it, and hands back a single ZIP. People usually reach for it to:
- Downloading product photos from a store export before moving to a new platform
- Collecting supplier or catalogue images that arrived as a list of links
- Saving pictures out of a workbook someone pasted them into
- Pulling reference images from a research or content planning sheet
- Backing up images that live only as links in a shared spreadsheet
Two kinds of images, handled differently
It helps to know which kind you have, because they behave differently.
Pictures embedded in the workbook. If someone pasted photos into the sheet, they are stored inside the XLSX file itself. Those are pulled straight out of the file on your own device with no network request, so they always come through.
Links in cells. If the sheet holds web addresses instead, each picture has to be fetched from the site hosting it. Your browser is only allowed to fetch a file from another website when that website permits it. Plenty of content delivery networks and storage buckets do. Plenty of other hosts do not, and there is no way around that from inside a browser. Rather than failing quietly, this tool lists every link that could not be fetched so you can handle those few by hand.
Nothing is uploaded
The spreadsheet never leaves your device. It is opened and read locally, which matters when the file holds supplier pricing, customer references or anything else you would rather not hand to an unknown server. The only requests that go out are to the image links themselves, exactly as if you had clicked each one.
After the download
Once you have the ZIP, the image converter will change the whole set to a single format or shrink them for the web, and the photo to PDF converter will combine them into one document if you need a catalogue or a contact sheet.