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How to do http POST in Mathematica?

The Import command lets you do a HTTP GET from a URL, like this Import @ "http://merkosoncampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/higgs-boson.jpg" This sends an ...
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What information is sent to Wolfram Research when loading or working with Mathematica?

Recently I am told that information unknown to the user is sent to Wolfram Servers. Is there any truth behind it ? I was told that more than just an IP address of the user is sent to them and that ...
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Can anyone explain how to use Mathematica's OAuth package?

I noticed that in HTTPClient.m which is included with Mathematica 9 and is located in ...
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How to manipulate web pages on Mathematica?

I wanted to input some data on this page through Mathematica. Then I would press the "buscar" button also through Mathematica coding and get the results on Mathematica. The most similar post I've ...
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Getting Mathematica.SE reputation data

I'm asking the following on behalf of Mr.Wizard. On StackOverflow I used the old v1.0 SO API and Mathematica to obtain user reputation data. Now we are no longer a tag on StackOverflow and the v2.1 ...
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Making a website with Mathematica

I know many people here have various websites associated with them and I'm guessing do at least some of the development of that stuff in Mathematica. I recently fell down that rabbit hole myself, ...
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How to play with Facebook data inside Mathematica?

I saw this post from Wolfram here and I would like to know how to import facebook data into Mathematica.
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Download xkcd Click and Drag comic

Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots I started looking at xkcd again and I came across a comic titled Click and Drag. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. A ...
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Gravatars/identicons with Mathematica

The default avatar/identicon is based on an MD5 hash of your e-mail address. With some e-mail providers (e.g., GMail) the address [email protected] is still ...
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Scraping High-Res images from the MoMA and the Van Gogh Museum websites

Many art websites allow the user to zoom into an image to see it at high resolution by using image tiles. It is great on the website, but presents problems if one wishes to compile a complete high ...
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YouTube Video inside Mathematica 13?

I just downloaded Mathematica 13 for Mac. There is a new function called Video[] which should stream videos from a URL all inside of a Mathematica notebook. I have been looking forward to this ...
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Using SendMail with new Google Security Rules

Normally, to send mail by Mathematica, I use something like this: ...
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Is there a convenient/automatic way of uploading a notebook into SE?

This post discusses how to streamline the other way - extracting code from a fragmented and longish SE answer but I imagine a two-way workflow like: Fashion an answer/question in an SE-templated ...
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Google Image Search in Notebook?

How can I use Google's image API to custom search for images and import them all?
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Problems with “Test Connectivity” and the Pacletserver

I know there has been a similar questions to this already but the solution did not work for me so here again: I have internet connection and I can execute such commands like: ...
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How to access Mathematica license server (being outside of the local network)

This is no Mathematica-language specific question but rather a network problem, so if this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize. I am running Mathematica on Windows 7, the license manager ...
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More complete "MutipartData" POSTs using URLFetch

I'm trying to upload a file to a wiki using Mathematica's URLFetch. Some preliminary work is required - one needs to log in to the wiki, obtain an edit token, and ...
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Reading data from Google Docs

I am working on a personal project involving a CloudDeploy[ ] that reads data off a Google Doc and then works with it. Ideally, the Google Doc is either a text document or a spreadsheet which contains ...
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Temporarily simulate being offline programmatically

Today I am running Mathematica from a computer that is permanently connected to our university network. Because of a number of reasons, I am not allowed to disconnect my computer from our network. My ...
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How to set up own paclet server?

With the paclet management framework made public in v12.1, I am eager to automate package distribution and update via paclets over the net. Stephen Wolfram mentioned in this post about v12.1 that they ...
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Making a Stock Options Database in Mathematica

I am trying to use Mathematica to create a stock options database of sorts. That is I wish to write a function that imports the option chain of a given stock. Unfortunately Wolfram has yet to put ...
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How to test upload speed?

There are many symbols for understanding internet-related properties: $NetworkConnected, PingTime, ...
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Incorporating photos into a Mathematica-made web page

I use Mathematica to make my web page. I make various .nb files, usually with photos, and then use an Export command to convert the .nb file to an .html file with ...
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How to detect an HTTP redirect when importing or reading a URL?

As an example, let's take the following URL: url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Basidiomycete" When you follow it, it redirects to https://en....
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Import the "thumbnail" of an internet page

I have a list of internet sites links from which I would like to automatically recover the page image/thumbnail and page title. Let's suppose that one of the links is https://www.google.com/, I would ...
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Creating a hyperlink graph from Wikipedia

This goes out to all the Mathematica experts - I'm hoping to get some helpful comments, ideas or code for that matter. In my attempts to maximize learning efficiency I had the idea to create an (...
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Is it possible to construct a topological map of road network of Bangalore?

I saw this example wherein the CityData gives the map of a city. But this is available for a relatively small set of curated regions. Is it possible to extract ...
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Is it possible to verify the accuracy of a file downloaded using URLFetch

Objective: I am trying to save a HTML file using the URLFetch function (native to Mathematica 9 onward). Sometimes the file is huge. Question: Is there a way to check/verify (using the headers or ...
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Security of SendMail

It's a little bit scary to hand over your credentials like this: I would like to know just how secure this process is. Is any way to ensure that mail sent from Mathematica is encrypted in transit and ...
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Is there a way to turn off paclet updating altogether? [duplicate]

We are running Mathematica 11.1 on a remote Linux box that has a pretty locked-down set of ports (enough for SSH and not a whole heck of a lot else), and it keeps trying to update things in the paclet ...
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How to tell (sub)kernels on a cluster not to try to access wolfram servers on startup?

Context I get inconsistent delays (from a fraction of a second to 10 seconds or more) in launching 'echo "Print[1+1]; Quit[]" | math' on different nodes ...
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How to obtain the distance (in Km/Miles and in minutes) by road ?. for example using googlemaps

How to obtain the distance between 2 geographical points (knowing the latitute and longitude) One easy way in the web is https://www.google.es/maps/dir/42.6897189,-8.4912382/42.\ 8659508,-8.6709907/@...
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MathLink: How to change the default listening IP address?

I have multiple VPNs, one gives local IP address 10.8.0.6 and another is 10.2.3.2. Now I wish to access machines in 10.2.3.x but Mathematica listens in 10.8.0.6 which is not known for those machines. ...
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Scraping Google nGram data

What is the most direct and efficient way to scrape the raw data graphed in a Google ngram search, such as here? (I want to analyze, edit, plot, and label it in Mathematica.) The obvious ...
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How to deal with WebServices error "any is not supported in sequence"?

I am trying to aquire data through Mathematica's WebServices and this example works just fine: ...
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Poor (network) performance of Interpreter["Time"]

I was surprised to see that Interpreter requires external WR resources as this is not documented, at least not here. On a 3Ghz iMac, took ~half a minute to ...
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Mathematica equivalent of a curl snippet

Is there any documentation anywhere on how to convert an invocation of curl into the Mathematica equivalent (using for example ...
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How to save a web page in mathematica?

For a given web page http://www.nytimes.com/, is it possible to save it as : first: only HTML(within css) second: more elements(include pictures and so on) just like what a browser can do. ...
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Print only when webpage updates

I'm currently developing a small auto-reply bot using Mathematica, and a key barrier is to send a reply whenever the webpage updates, in other words, new messages come in. I cannot think of any ...
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Connecting Mathematica to a SOCKS5 tunnel proxy

I have Mathematica setup normally and connections work. However, when I want to use it to connect through my SSH tunnel program (Tunnelier), it throws the error PacletSiteUpdate::err: An error ...
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Download binary file bypassing Import/Export? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Downloading files without using Import While attempting to answer my own question I realized that I don't know a way to simply download a binary file to a specified folder ...
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Check Google PageRank for a given URL

Does anyone know how to write a Mathematica function that returns the Google PageRank of a given URL? I found a tutorial for achieving this in a bash script here, but I have no idea how to port this ...
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How to validate an IP address format?

Is it possible to validate the format of an IP address (say v4)? I assumed that IPAddress could do this by failing on non-IP inputs but instead one can pass ...
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Privacy in web-queries [closed]

The question What information is sent to Wolfram Research when loading or working with Mathematica? describes the information sent to Wolfram's servers in routine Mathematica usage (Documentation ...
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webmathematica to share my game?

I wrote the code for a puzzle game. It's written in a notebook that I would like to share on the internet: ...
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How to force Mathematica to interpret a file as HTML?

Some web pages do not explicitly contain the file extension "html" but is formatted that way (like this one). If I saved this page to my computer then Mathematica could parse it correctly. But if I ...
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Where is URLExistsQ in version 11?

Searching this function in the doc,it found nothing. Is this function be removed? I want to check weather the url can access from my country. ...
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How get MailSeverConnect to resolve host?

I've tried without success to get MailServerConnect to work, in the first instance, with Gmail. Method 1: In Mathematica's Preferences > Internet and Mail > ...
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How can I monitor the process of neutral network training?

In the Linux command line,type wolfram then use NetTrain[net, mnist, Automatic, "LossEvolutionPlot"] can get the ...
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URLFetch Problem with the Size of HTTP Message Body [closed]

I am trying to transmit this string as an HTTP Message BODY ...
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