Thank you so much to both. And Andre, if you could write a blog post for every question I have it would help me a lot. ;-)
Actually I think I had looked at the very helpful StackExchange page before for reading Google Sheets directly in R. I will try it and report back with any follow ups. Regards Kaveh On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 02:12, Andre Alves Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote: > Kaveh, > > There is a much easier way. I've just posted about it since it can be of > interest for others (there is a demo stack included): > > > http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-google-sheets-data-from-livecode.html > > Basically, there are special URLs for retrieving a Google Sheet as a CSV > or a JSON. Much easier than parsing HTML or visible text. > > Cheers > > andre > > On 11/14/2018 12:46 AM, dunbarxx via use-livecode wrote: > > Hi. > > > > well the (very) short answer is that you can: > > > > put url "yourWebpageAddressHere" into temp > > > > What you get is the entirety of the html contents of a page. Others will > > tell both of us how to get the "visible" text, that is, the tab and > return > > delimited data, buried in all those tags. > > > > Craig Newman > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveh1000> • LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
