USB Vendor Lookup in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Identify USB devices by the row. Returns the manufacturer and product name — 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 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.

usbvendorlookup.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", A2, "field", "vendorId")

Vendorid

Vendor Id

Product Id

Found

Vendor

05AC

05AC

8290

TRUE

Apple, Inc.

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Resolve a column of hosts

Fill =VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "productId") down your list of hosts or IPs and land the answer for each in its own row — no terminal, no scripts.

Enrich logs or inventories

Add USB Vendor Lookup's lookup beside an existing table to turn bare identifiers into readable, structured detail.

Compose checks

Combine the result with IF and conditional formatting to surface the rows that need attention.

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("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "productId")

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("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "productId")

Optional inputs

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

productid
The USB product ID in 4-digit hex format (optional)
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "productid", "8290")

Fields you can pull

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

Found
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "found")
Vendor
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "vendor")
Product
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "product")
Vendor Id
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "vendorId")
Product Id
=VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "productId")

USB Vendor Lookup, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull USB Vendor Lookup into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "field", "found") 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 USB Vendor Lookup?

USB Vendor Lookup returns found, vendor, product, vendorId and productId — 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.

Can I narrow what USB Vendor Lookup returns?

Yes — USB Vendor Lookup takes "productid" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("usbvendorlookup", "05AC", "productid", "8290") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of USB Vendor Lookup at once?

Yes. Put your vendorid 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 USB Vendor 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 USB Vendor 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.

USB Vendor Lookup

Resolve a column of hosts

Enrich logs or inventories

Compose checks

USB Vendor Lookup, answered

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

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