Does Google Visualization, when creating a chart , send your data (the x and y values and labels) back to Google? Or does it create the chart with Javascript in the client?
I mean the HTML5 Google API loaded with this command
google.load('visualization', '1.0', {'packages':['corechart']});
( https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/quick_start ) , not the old Chart API that created an image.
I am concerned about the security of my data, which is internal corporate data I want to present only on our intranet.
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/security_privacy
They claim that the data is kept only a short time for debugging purposes, then deleted. However if this is legally protected data under HIPA or SEC regulations that is unlikely to be good enough.
After reading further I found these on Google saying that for many charts, no data is sent to Google (or even your own server).
"All Google-authored charts are developed with privacy and security considerations in mind. All Google chart documentation pages include a data policy section that describes whether a chart sends any chart data from the page."
Line Chart: All code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data is sent to any server.
https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart#Data_Policy
Scatter Chart - same
Area Chart - same
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I have a purchased license at fusion charts. Fusion charts document says here... https://www.fusioncharts.com/dev/upgrading/license-activation that i have to use this function call for applying license...
FusionCharts.options.license({
key: 'KEY_GOES_HERE',
creditLabel: false,
});
if i put my key in that anyone visiting my website can easily take it from view -> source of browser. how do i avoid it ? It is simple HTML website.
You can use either of the followings :
Instead of passing the keys directly in JS code, pass them via the environment, application variables. And add the env file to gitignore
Use Obfuscation for the key and JS code being used for license activation.
You can store the value of the key in your database & and fetch the data value so that the end-user is unable to access it.
If you know the domain/sub-domains where charts will be used, you can restrict the license keys to those domains by sending a request to sales#fusioncharts.com
As far as I know, there is no way to completely hide it from the frontend. The reason for this is that even if the key is hidden in some way when the request is made, the information has to exist and so the key could be found by looking at the request data.
What you wish to protect against determines how you should go about it. If you would just like to hide it from being picked up by webscrapers, then I would imagine encrypting it and then decrypting it before you send would be sufficient.
If you would like to protect against anyone stealing it, then the only way is to have a server act as a proxy. You would make a call to an API which would then use your API key on the backend, away from the prying eyes of users. Your backend API would then just return to the user the response from fusioncharts.
I'm trying to retrieve the 'estimated value' field displayed on the https://www.poppriceguide.com/ website so it can be displayed in a google sheets automatically.
Example URL: https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/poppriceguide/catalog_items/iron-man-model-39
I've tried using the =IMPORTXML() function as such:
=IMPORTXML(https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/poppriceguide/catalog_items/iron-man-model-39, /*[contains(concat( " ", #class, " " ), concat( " ", "value", " " ))])
with no success, seemingly to be caused because it is retrieved using Javascript.
Doing some research I found poppriceguide is using Hobbydb's API which according to Hobbydb should be available.
https://help.hobbydb.com/support/solutions/articles/36000265069-access-to-the-hobbydb-api
https://help.hobbydb.com/support/solutions/articles/36000263216-adding-estimated-values-and-other-data-to-your-own-site
Going through the network calls I found this API request, however when I do it separately it gives me an authentication failed.
https://www.hobbydb.com/api/price_guide?catalog_item_id=520170
Other API Requests do work however, for example:
https://www.hobbydb.com/api/catalog_items/323645
How would I go about retrieving the value so it can dynamically be displayed in a Google sheets?
The link you shared says
Let us know if you are interested in exploring co-operation and using the API. Please provide us with a good overview of your project.
This is likely to mean that the API requires authentication
It is also possible for the API to have certain endpoints that are free, which is why some seem to work. Yet with no publicly available documentation, there is no way to know which ones.
So unfortunately you will not be able to use Apps Script for this, you could look into some other web scraping software, maybe Puppeteer. Or try and apply for an API key from HobbyDB.
I try to create a pdf ON Server but what will be the Rest URL? I.e. For a List of all Clubs in one Region GET /clubListForRegion/3
Thanks!
The design of the resource depends on your application domain. If you offer some service for browsing different entertainment branches and you can drill down into certain regions I would propose
GET /regions/north-east/entertainment/clubs
and the representation of this collection of club resources would be a PDF.
If you are offering some service specialised on browsing clubs, you could shorten the hierarchy or use a query parameter:
GET /clubs/techno?region=north-east
If the on the fly creation of the PDF takes a noticeable amount of time, I would propose a POST on the resource instead. The response could contain a link to the final PDF and possibly a link to query the status of the PDF creation process.
i am using Bing map tiles in my Android application. I download tiles from http://h0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/h<quadkey>.jpeg?g=131 and it works fine, but i understand that i need to append a token to this URL in order to make this operation legal (and ask some kind of special permission from Microsoft). It is all well explained here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtualearth/archive/2008/04/29/tracking-virtual-earth-tile-usage.aspx. But this post is from 2008 and i found on msdn site that in 2012, token-auth system will be replaced with key auth system.
Does anybody know how can i perform the direct tile access with this new auth system?
Thanks in advance
Accessing tiles directly with key-based authentication can be accomplished like so:
Using the REST ‘Get Imagery Metadata’ service to obtain the tile URL format for the type of tiles you wish to display:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701716.aspx
- For example, if you wish to display Road tiles, the following request could be used (taken from the above documentation): http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/V1/Imagery/Metadata/Road?mapVersion=v1&output=xml&key=BingMapsKey
Within the response, the URL for tiles is returned, with a placeholder for the tile quadkey.
A new REST request should be issued each time the map viewer in the application is instantiated, or whenever the map type is changed (eg. You wish to switch to aerial or hybrid map style)
Your platform usage can then be tracked based on the calls to the REST service.
I'm trying to use Google Analytics API to retrieve data for my custom segments.
They say here http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceAccountFeed.html#accountResponse that all the segments are listed in the account feed response. But mine doesn't contain them.
Has anyone else had this problem and know a way to get the data out from them?
Thanks,
Beth
Make sure you add GData-Version: 2 in your header.