Detect Spam in Google Sheets & Excel — =VERVE("spamdetector", "Congratulations! You have won a free iPhone. Click here to claim your prize now!")

What this pulls

Score text for spam by the row. =VERVE("spamdetector", A2) flags likely spam down a whole column — Google 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 5 credits 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.

spamdetector.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("spamdetector", A2, "likelySpam")

Text

Likely Spam

Country

Region

Parsed

Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash

TRUE

TRUE

click any cell to see its formula5 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Validate a list before you use it

Run =VERVE("spamdetector", "Congratulations! You have won a free iPhone. Click here to claim your prize now!") down a column of inputs and let each row tell you whether it's real and safe — catch the bad ones before they hit your workflow.

Score a lead or signup sheet

Add a validity column beside your contacts so you can filter, sort, or conditionally format the rows worth keeping.

Guardrail with IF

Wrap =VERVE("spamdetector", "Congratulations! You have won a free iPhone. Click here to claim your prize now!") in an IF and flag anything that fails, turning a raw import into a checked, trustworthy sheet.

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("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash")

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("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

email
The email address to validate against the spam database. This is optional
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "email", "[email protected]")
ipPremium
The IP address to validate against the spam database. This is optional
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "ip", "192.168.1.1")

Fields you can pull

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

Likely Spam
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "likelySpam")
Is Disposable EmailPremium
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "isDisposableEmail")
Is IPBlacklistedPremium
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "isIPBlacklisted")
Ip Details.countryPremium
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "ipDetails.country")
Ip Details.regionPremium
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "ipDetails.region")
Parsed
=VERVE("spamdetector", "Can you please spare some change?! Desperate!!! Send cash", "field", "parsed")

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

Detect Spam, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Detect Spam into a spreadsheet?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("spamdetector", "Congratulations! You have won a free iPhone. Click here to claim your prize now!") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.

How many credits does each Detect Spam cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 5 credits. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.

Can I fill a whole column at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Detect Spam at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("spamdetector", "Congratulations! You have won a free iPhone. Click here to claim your prize now!") down like any spreadsheet function.

Does Detect Spam work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.

How current is the data?

Detect Spam is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Detect Spam is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Detect Spam

Validate a list before you use it

Score a lead or signup sheet

Guardrail with IF

Detect Spam, answered

Put Detect Spam in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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