I've been using import functions a lot in my sports modeling, but I've never been able to figure out how to get past the issue of pulling information that is dynamically imported from another source.
For example, i'm trying to use importxml to pull the money line values in this link here: https://www.sportsbookreview.com/betting-odds/nfl-football/money-line/
I can get the information in the left columns up until "PINNACLE", and after research i now understand I can't get the rest of the information because it's not static on the page and I need to go to the source... how do I find the source of this information so I can pull it from there?
I tried inspecting the page, clicking on "network", clicking on "XHR", refreshing the page and previewing the results, but nothing seemed to match.
Am I looking in the wrong place?
The page uses websockets to download the data, so I don't think you could simulate it in Google spreadsheets using formulas (maybe it could be possible in a script). However in this particular case there is a 'classic view' variant of the page which includes all the data in its source:
https://classic.sportsbookreview.com/betting-odds/nfl-football/money-line/
Related
I am experimenting with two of the examples ToDoRest and the XamarinForms3RestApiApp. I am looking specifically at the UWP client.
I have made sure that I have the same code on my computer as the examples in GIT.
When I run them they compile without error and the form comes up. However in both examples the existing data from the rest backend does not appear as content on the UWP page. clicking on the api link shows that the json formatted data does come up when accessed directly
In both cases its the 'vanilla' example on GIT -nothing changed.
Has anyone else experienced this on these examples?If so, what might be preventing data from showing?
I am the admin of a Facebook group and am trying to keep track of how many people each user has added. I cannot seem to nail down how I can easily write a script to:
Determine how many people a User has added.
Echo that to a file in the format $User:$number_of_added_members.
I've been made aware I cannot do this with the API, I am banging my head against a wall here. If anyone could at least point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
I just did this...
actually i am a programmer and did it in the hard way because i needed group by users. I hoped that the graph api at least give me an xml of user with added by in order to make my code read it but it did not so what i did is just to copy the table on the members page and paste it on a txt file and make a python code read it and make a dictionary of user: number_of_users_he_added.
it was quick but there is a problem that the members page does not give u all the results, its infinity scroll and i have a lot of members.
u can write a js script that read the dom instead of copy paste or even a chrome extension but still have the problem with the infinity scroll.
if facebook provide the added by field in their graph it will be great
Maybe you can work with the site which lists all members and look for the string below the member which says "added by on " But I'm not sure, how long this stays before it switches to "in the group since"
Edit
Use a crawler software like the one in Symfony to traverse the HTML of the page. You will need a PHP CLI for this tool. DOMCrawler from Symfony
I've implemented this for my site:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/real-time-updates/v2.0
and I am receiving updates successfully. The format of these updates is fairly easy to understand by understanding the JSON response. However, I can't find a list of possible types of changes (possible values for the JSON response) so I can handle / replicate all the scenarios that may come up.
Is this published anywhere?
The possible values for 'item' and 'verb' are not documented. Here's everything I have observed when receiving updates for pages only:
Items:
like
share
comment
photo
video
post
Verbs:
add
remove
edited
hide
unhide
Can't claim this is comprehensive, but that's the best of my knowledge based on reviewing logs of many thousands of updates. I would guess that user, permissions, and payments RTUS have their own sets of possible values.
Not sure what you mean with types of changes exactly. There's
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/real-time-updates/v2.0#subscribefields
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/real-time-updates/v2.0#receiveupdates
If you click on the first links down arrows on the right side, you'll get the list of fields that can change for the user and the page objects.
After some searching, I came across https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed#updates There's a reference to http://activitystrea.ms/ in the code:
<activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post/</activity:verb>
Unfortunately, the website doesn't work apparantly, but one can view an old version here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140720095121/http://activitystrea.ms/registry/verbs/
This seems to contain the list of possible verbs wihtin this schema. Which of those Facebook actually uses is not clear to me unfortunately. There's the specs as well: http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/schema/activity-schema.html#verbs
Is there any existing way to generate a what-links-here report for a gollum wiki? In other words, a list of the pages within the same wiki that link to the current page: a list of the local inbound links.
I wasn't able to spot any feature like this, nor find anything suitable in the API, but I may have missed it. Is there a third party add-on for it?
I do understand the reason it probably doesn't exist in the core: as these are plain text files, there isn't any table of links maintained anywhere. For the same reason, when a page is renamed it breaks all the inbound links to that page from other pages.
A function for this could use the API to read the generated source of each page (so that only html with normalized names needs to be parsed), producing a list of the local links from each page and the page they are on. Cache the results at page level until the next commit of that page.
This could be used to enhance the existing page rename feature as well. Has anybody already done this?
My problem is very similar to the one posted here:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Plotting-Addresses-Maps-t1968130.html
except that thread never found any solutions. Basically, I'm working on an Access form that has a datasheet as a subform. Upon clicking a button on the main form I'm trying to make it so that a browser window opens up and, using the address columns from the spreadsheet data in the subform, plot all the address markers listed. I've looked up a lot of ways to attempt this but I've yet to find a way that seems to work.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to plot multiple markers on Google Maps, but according to research (and after trying it myself) it seems like it isn't, although I don't want to rule it out entirely because I'm still not 100% sure. However I know both Google Earth and batchgeo.com do allow this. I still want to try and do this on Google Maps, but if that doesn't work I want to try to do it using batchgeo.com and if that still doesn't work, then Google Earth (I don't want to make the user download external software if possible).
If it helps, from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to embed to already existing websites.
I'd really appreciate if someone could help me figure out how to approach this problem!
Maybe this would help?
http://ramblings.mcpher.com/Home/excelquirks/getmaps/mapmarkers
It is Excel but should be translatable.
Here is another example, this time using Access:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Google-Maps-Multiple-Mar-t1973499.html
...from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not
sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to
embed to already existing websites.
You're right. There's no way, that I'm aware of, to embed a Google Maps object in a form (like an ActiveX control). Microsoft MapPoint is a software product that lets you do Map integration by way of an ActiveX control (no need to use HTML and/or javascript).
What I usually do on a project like you're working on is I get my HTML page working the way I want it to, outside and independent of MS Access. You should be able to program and test the HTML file locally without having to use an actual web server. Just use something like NotePad++ or Sublime Text Editor 2 to write your HTML and Javascript and then open the file in your browser to see if it works. I'm quite sure you'll need to use Javascript in your HTML page to make this work. That's what the Google Maps API is all about.
After you have your webpage working, then you will have to go into Access and write code to create that web page on the fly with the address data for the current data set. You can just write it out to the Windows Temp folder and then open your browser control that that web page.
Julian Knight's answer links to more specifics on how to create the HTML page on the fly. It looks like gobble-de-gook, mostly because it is. Outputting HTML/Javascript/CSS from VBA is far less than optimal. This is why you troubleshoot it outside of Access, as much as you can.