Advanced Excel
Advanced Excel is a subject-matter topic encompassing Microsoft Excel's programmatic capabilities for data analysis, formula execution, workbook management, chart generation, and automation. This topic index covers REST APIs, open data schemas, and developer tools for working with Excel workbooks programmatically, including Microsoft Graph Excel API, open-source spreadsheet libraries, and data interchange formats used in business intelligence and automation workflows.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Advanced Excel the way a machine reads it — 70 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Advanced Excel scores 62.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Advanced Excel
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Advanced Excel. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Advanced Excel Charts API
Chart creation and management
Advanced Excel Ranges API
Cell range read/write operations
Advanced Excel Tables API
Excel table management
Advanced Excel Workbooks API
Excel workbook access and session management
Advanced Excel Worksheets API
Worksheet management within a workbook
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Microsoft Graph Excel API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Advanced Excel Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Advanced Excel Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Workbook and Worksheet Management
Create, read, update, and delete Excel workbooks and worksheets via REST API calls.
Formula Execution
Execute Excel formulas and retrieve computed values programmatically via the Microsoft Graph API.
Range and Cell Operations
Read and write cell values, apply formatting, and manipulate named ranges and tables.
Chart Generation
Create and configure charts from worksheet data including column, line, pie, and bar chart types.
Table and PivotTable Operations
Create, query, and manipulate Excel tables and pivot tables via API.
Session Management
Manage persistent workbook sessions for transactional multi-step operations on Excel files.
Named Items and Functions
Access named ranges, defined names, and custom functions within Excel workbooks.
Conditional Formatting
Apply and query conditional formatting rules on cell ranges via the REST API.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Advanced Excel API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 13
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Chart
JSON SCHEMAChartInput
JSON SCHEMAChartList
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMARange
JSON SCHEMARangeInput
JSON SCHEMASession
JSON SCHEMASessionInput
JSON SCHEMATable
JSON SCHEMATableList
JSON SCHEMAWorksheet
JSON SCHEMAWorksheetInput
JSON SCHEMAWorksheetList
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 13 ·
JSON Structure 13
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Excel Api Chart Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Chartinput Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Chartlist Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Errorresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Range Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Rangeinput Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Session Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Sessioninput Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Table Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Tablelist Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Worksheet Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Worksheetinput Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExcel Api Worksheetlist Structure
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Examples 13
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Excel Api Chart Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Chartinput Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Chartlist Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Range Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Rangeinput Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Session Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Table Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Tablelist Example
EXAMPLEExcel Api Worksheet Example
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Automated Reporting
Generate Excel-based financial, operational, or analytical reports programmatically from business data.
Data Import and Export
Read data from Excel workbooks into business applications or write application data into Excel formats.
Spreadsheet Automation
Automate repetitive Excel tasks such as data cleanup, formula recalculation, and sheet formatting.
Business Intelligence Pipelines
Extract and transform Excel data for loading into data warehouses and BI tools.
Financial Modeling
Execute complex financial models stored in Excel and retrieve results via API for application integration.
Form and Survey Data Collection
Use Excel as a data store for forms and survey responses collected via web or mobile applications.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Advanced Excel — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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