Questions tagged [web-access]
Questions about using Mathematica for accessing web sites and using such functions as URLFetch and URLSave.
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Is it possible to build a small web site with vanilla Mathematica? How about a web server?
Note: This question is not about WebMathematica. I speculate it is capable of doing everything about to be discussed.
With its diverse capabilities and near endless ...
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Create a function that takes a symbol and searches wolfram documentation for the page and opens it
This is way over my pay-grade, so I have no idea where to start. I'm certain MMA has some very good internet capabilities, so it seems to me that it is possible.
This is really a 2-part question:
How ...
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Implementing Web Form to collect data but users must authenticate first
I’m trying to implement a web form to collect data into a databin, but I need users authenticate first (nothing fancy, predefined usernames and password are fine), so I could collect every user data. ...
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How to obtain stock information from a website
I want to obtain some information of stock markets from TradingView website.
For instance, let us access to S&P index chart through the URL,
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=SP%3ASPX
Now, ...
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How to insert input into Jupyter notebook using WebExecute
I started web session and opened a Jupyter notebook in it:
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Make Mathematica input things on a website and take the data out
So I found a website that calculates polynomials that I need it intakes a word of a's and b's say aabba and outputs a polynomial. Here is the website: http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~moira/NewApps/...
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HTTPRequest result confusion
everyone!
I've been using Mathematica to progress through the problems of codeabbey.com, and I've picked up the first of "interactive" problems (Problem #176 - Say 100), which is sort of an ...
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Character encoding of the output from URLExecute
Bug persisting through 13.1.0 [CASE:4932406]
I'm using URLExecute to fetch some data from the arXiv preprint server
but it seems that the encoding of the text I ...
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Getting stock quotes from Yahoo Finance API in Mathematica
I have obtained a Yahoo Finance API key and would like to try it out by making a simple request from within Mathematica. Their tutorial page has some nice little example code snippets in various ...
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looking for a WebExecute workaround
A website opens properly with SystemOpen["url"] but fails to open properly with StartWebSession[] or ...
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Is it possible to run SageCellServer inside Mathematica?
I came across this website https://sagecell.sagemath.org/
which can evaluate any SageMath code online.
I wondered if I could access this website (in the background) from a Mathematica notebook, run a ...
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WebSearch Stopped Working
I've been using 'WebSearch' and 'WebImageSearch' quite a lot recently to sample images for my work. However, these functions suddenly stopped working. When I evaluate, for example,
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scrape App Store web data
I want to scrape the privacy information of an app on the web store page.
For example, the Tiktok app information looks like this:
tiktok on us app store
I found that it's easy to scrape that ...
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Get page source from active web session?
WebExecute allows to control a web browser through Mathematica. There are various actions one can perform programmatically through this function. However, I could ...
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Converting HTML Tables derived from URL's on the Web to Datasets 211112 Revisited
In a previous question [211112] that deals with importing data from a
Wikipedia table directly into a Dataset.
For the following data:
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How to stream NSE option chain data into mathematica
I'm trying to stream option chain data into mathematica from the
url: https://www.nseindia.com/api/option-chain-indices?symbol=BANKNIFTY
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How do I get access to the element which is inside a document in iframe?
If the element is not inside an iframe then the following works:
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How to check the status of browser after every WebExecute command?
When executing commands using WebExecute on the $CurrentWebSession like follows:
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How to select from a dropdown list in WebExecute?
After locating the dropdown using the XPath as follows:
element=First@WebExecute["LocateElements"->"XPath"->"..."];
How do I ...
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BlockchainBlockData request limit exceeded
I'm trying to replicate this Blog entry on Bitcoin queries:
https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/05/25/sleuthing-darkside-crypto-ransom-payments-with-the-wolfram-language/
However, I don't get very far ...
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How to continue with my Wolfram cloud basic?
I have this simple question but failed to find an answer on the internet.
So far (over a course of 6 months or so) I am using a free account called: Wolfram cloud basic. I use this to make some 3D ...
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Is there a CryptocurrencyData alternative to FinancialData?
What's the easiest way to ingest time series data on cryptocurrencies into Mathematica?
I'm looking for up-to-date price, volume, and other properties for both major coins and altcoins.
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interact with web pages with many hyperlinks and search for a specific name or phrase How?
I have this code that shows many hyperlinks
links = Import[
"http://www.liceobrainstorm.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/",
"Hyperlinks"]
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Scroll to end of page with WebExecute
I want to scrape the data from this url : https://www.cboe.com/us/indices/indicessearch/
In so doing , I need to scroll to the end of page. Is there a way to use WebExecute to scroll to end of page ? ...
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Easily download SE posts as notebooks?
Is there a common method of grabbing an SE post or answer here as a formatted notebook so that you can immediately run it, instead of copy-pasting the code blocks?
I've heard SSE uses MarkdownSharp ...
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how to get world-wide COVID-19 data in a correct form
I have the following code for retrieving world-wide COVID-19 data.
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How to import a google sheets file that requires account login?
How do I import a google sheets file that is in my google drive?
I tried the following:
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Can Google Earth images be imported?
I've searched for code and found nothing. Is this a server handshake problem?
Below, GeoGraphics executes properly on wikimapia.org, but WebImage doesn't open earth.google.com to a coordinate.
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Finding Vaccine Appointments in MA
Everyday I spend a crazy amount of time clicking though each maze of hyperlinks and forms on this horrendous site: https://vaxfinder.mass.gov/
Is there anyway that Mathematica can help speed up the ...
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Socket not ready but data is available
Background
I am playing with https://github.com/arnoudbuzing/wolfram-server and I faced problems with requests that are slightly longer. I tried to narrow it down here.
Problem
This could be my ...
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Import CSV data from internet to mathematica [closed]
This Link has data in CSV format for 2015 and other years. I would like to get the data for 2015 (by clicking on 2015) but the CSV data format has more rows than Excel can handle and therefore the ...
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How to use Import to extract data from website?
I would like to extract data of surface properties and grain boundary properties for Cu polymorph #0 from the website: http://crystalium.materialsvirtuallab.org using Mathematica.
So far I tried with <...
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Get file downloaded from click in WebSession?
I'm downloading a file by clicking a button from chrome with the WebDriver functionality:
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How to start an incognito web session?
Is this possible to do with StartWebSession, in either with Chrome or Firefox?
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WebSessionObject from Process
StartWebSession creates a websession which can be controlled with many commands to automate web stuff. It is limited -- what if one wants to include arguments to ...
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Using java-script code in Mathematica
I have the following HTML file stored on "C:\local.html":
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How to monitor multiple async image downloads?
I have a few thousand image urls that I want to download asynchronously, how can I do that while monitoring progress? I'm really asking for 5 things:
Show dynamic progress in bar
Downloads must be ...
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Expanding website file display ---------show files in full format
Many times looking for some material I find websites that seem to use a format that does not allow the file name to be fully visible.
You download the file that you think it is and it turns out that ...
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Curl analog with URLRead/Execute?
I have a working curl command:
curl https://myapp.herokuapp.com/doit -F filedata=@path/to/img.jpg
How do I write this in the modern way with ...
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How to send keys to the element in focus with WebExecute
Exploring the WebExecute function, I would like to know how can I send key (or TypeElement) to the element in focus. Here is a toy code using Google.
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URLDownload(and URLSave, Import) "Error while processing content unencoding"
I'm downloading a file of exactly 1000K-size (https://gitee.com/WolframPaclet1/WolframPacletExtreme1/raw/master/Paclets/MXNetResources-WIN64-12.0.37.paclet.601) with ...
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Bug in WebExecute TypeElement with diacritics characters [Solved]
[Solved in 12.1.1]
When using WebExecute TypeElement, I get $Failed if I have a diacritics ...
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Can Delayed FormFunction redirect to itself (with body)
I want a FormFunction to show a history of inputs, by default an empty list. But once the submit is hit, the form should be reloaded with the history shown on top.
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Cannot launch Chrome or Firefox Driver with StartWebSession[]
The Mathematica 12 in my computer cannot launch Chrome or Firefox session correctly. The first error message is
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Basic API Key authentication not working with URLExecute
I am a newbie with RESTful APIs and have never tried accessing one from inside Mathematica. I am trying to access the Companies House API, in the UK. The following command works fine from the Terminal ...
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Decompose website into rectangular grid?
I'd like to take an image of a website and decompose it into a rectangular clustering of dominant pixels like this:
What I've tried so far
There are a few existing webpage segmentation solutions:
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Make Mathematica aware of private root certificate authority
I have a private root certificate authority and when I use functions like URLRead[] to connect to a local HTTPS endpoint, I have to add ...
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SSL errors when using URLFetch or URLSave in versions 8 or 9
It seems that with Mathematica 8 and 9 it is not possible anymore to
download files from SSL encrypted urls. In my case (Fedora 30) on Mathematica 8
(it has no ...
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URLSave in Mathematica 10 and 11 on Linux [closed]
It seems that URLSave doesn't work as expected with https links in Mathematica 10.4
on Linux. At least in my case (Fedora 30) for
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Convert Plot to Base64 [closed]
My goal is to get a Base64 string directly from a plot (or any Graphics object) in Mathematica such that, when using a Base64 decoder online, such as this one, I ...
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