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  • 1.  USe DashBoard to scrub a HTML website (post scripts)

    Posted 09-19-2020 14:18

    Hi there!

    So this one might be a little wierd...
    I'm allready using the HTTP Request to get back some sites with the full HTML and JSON string etc etc... But that's all pre-scripts on the sites behalf.

    Is there a way for me to get the website after the scripts have been run etc, so that I can read out from the tables that have then been populated with the data from the scripts?
    I know it's a really dirty way of getting the data from a website, but I honestly cant think of another way of doing this as it stands right now... The developer of the website in question has plans for a way to request data straight from the JSON, but they are suuuuuper slow and I dont seeing this being implemented anytime soon really.



  • 2.  RE: USe DashBoard to scrub a HTML website (post scripts)

    Posted 09-19-2020 15:01

    Aleksander,
    I’m following in hopes of someone sharing their solution in dashboard, but you can do this with excel. I’ll post a screenshot when I get back to my laptop, but it’s in the data ribbon. Unfortunately you can’t use this option if you have legacy sharing enabled. I have a separate workbook that contains the table connections so I can just set up a sheet for each roster and refresh the table then save it out as csv, xml, or whatever. It’s another step... but it works.
    -Chris


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  • 3.  RE: USe DashBoard to scrub a HTML website (post scripts)

    Posted 09-21-2020 20:40


  • 4.  RE: USe DashBoard to scrub a HTML website (post scripts)

    Posted 09-30-2020 10:24

    Hmmm.. Yeah I guess that's one workaround... Though I dont like to rely on third party software for this...
    I know they are working on access to this through an API (quite possibly PubNub)... But I know that this will take months yet... And season starts saturday!

    So, again, does anyone have an idea of what could be possible?


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