Dog Breed Lookup in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Pull breed facts by the row. Returns temperament, weight and lifespan for each breed — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

dogbreeds.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("dogbreeds", A2, "field", "foundCount")

Breed

Found Count

beagle

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Turn IDs into detail

Fill =VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundCount") down a column of identifiers and expand each into full, structured detail — no manual lookups.

Enrich a table in place

Add Dog Breed Lookup beside your existing rows to append the fields you were missing, right where the data lives.

Keep it current

Let auto-refresh re-resolve the column on a schedule so the enriched data never goes stale.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundCount")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundCount")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Found Count
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundCount")
Found Breeds
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds")
Found Breeds › Name
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.name")
Found Breeds › Weight › Lower LbsPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.weight.lowerLbs")
Found Breeds › Weight › Upper LbsPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.weight.upperLbs")
Found Breeds › Height › Lower InchesPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.height.lowerInches")
Found Breeds › Height › Upper InchesPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.height.upperInches")
Found Breeds › Bred ForPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.bredFor")
Found Breeds › Group
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.group")
Found Breeds › Life span › Lower YearsPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.life_span.lowerYears")
Found Breeds › Life span › Upper YearsPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.life_span.upperYears")
Found Breeds › TraitsPremium
=VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundBreeds.0.traits")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Dog Breed Lookup, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Dog Breed Lookup into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("dogbreeds", "beagle", "field", "foundCount") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Dog Breed Lookup?

Dog Breed Lookup returns foundCount, foundBreeds, foundBreeds.0.name and foundBreeds.0.group — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Which Dog Breed Lookup fields need a paid plan?

foundBreeds.0.weight.lowerLbs, foundBreeds.0.weight.upperLbs, foundBreeds.0.height.lowerInches and foundBreeds.0.height.upperInches, plus 4 more are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Dog Breed Lookup at once?

Yes. Put your breed values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Dog Breed Lookup cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Dog Breed Lookup work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Dog Breed Lookup

Turn IDs into detail

Enrich a table in place

Keep it current

Dog Breed Lookup, answered

Put Dog Breed Lookup in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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