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How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
Hi all,
I want to import data from a web site (this is refresh every day), but I need only part of it, then read the necessary data from there. I tried to block it (array), but it did not work, and I've been looking for a lot of solutions, but I did not find it really good. How can I solve this?
Thanks so much if anyone solves my problem.
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
What kind of server does the website have and what protocol does it use? Many use the HTTP protocol.
To read data from the site, send the server an HTTP Get command, read its response, parse it and save the part that you want.
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Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
I don't know that information, sorry. Can you check? I am a beginner. --> ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Sports
How can I save part that I want? Which command? Please a bit more help, and thereafter I can search exampels. Many thanks!
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
This is a big project for a beginner and will require you to do lots of research.I am a beginner
Do you know what the HTTP protocol is? Do a search and some reading to find out how it works.
Java has several classes that you can use to use the HTTP protocol to read files from a server:
For example: HttpURLConnection
There are also some classes from the Apache project that would be useful, but I am not familiar with them.
I assume that the server returns an HTML page. Again you need to do some research about HTML.How can I save part that I want?
When reading the data returned by the server you will need to parse the part you want.
Again I think the Apache project might have useful classes for that.
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Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
I have a simple code. It can download web pages into texts. Is it not a solution if I download it and read it out there? What do you think?
In fact I just do not know which command to use in order to read the relevant part of the html code.
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
If the data is read from the server into a String, then there are methods in the String class to extract the parts that you want.
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Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
for example the HTMLEditorKit.Parser?
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
Sorry, I haven't used that class and don't know what it does.
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Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
np, Thank you for your help!
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
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Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
Thanks, it is helpful.
Re: How can I import data from a website to my program, or file
Hi sir. I couldn't help noticing that you are from a sports network. And you are trying to import data from a website. Did you build this network yourself or another person to do it for you? Using some other program, I'm assuming. It could be any one of the browsers or programming language. Unix being a popular program also working with Java. Also popular is Fortran. How'd you start off your project? From one of the Java programs or JRE. Then trying this out. The file or program.
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