Questions tagged [web-access]
Questions about using Mathematica for accessing web sites and using such functions as URLFetch and URLSave.
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Inconsistent HTTPResponse handling
It seems that sources of URL* related features are not initialized properly which leads to problems in many cases.
Please follow those steps to reproduce the ...
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How to use URLDownload if the url doesn't have the correct filetype extension?
I'm using the new (in V11) function UrlDownload[]
I have a url I'd like to save to a local file, but the url is missing a (or has the incorrect) filetype extension....
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How to access a web API with HTTP POST and JSON
I want to get data using HTTPS from
POST https://developers.betfair.com/api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/json-rpc/v1 HTTP/1.1
using JSON
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Cloud CDF and HTTPRedirect
Cross posted on community.wolfram.com
Question and requirements
Is it possible to HTTPRedirect from a Cloud CDF via e.g. Button...
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How can I tally users on the Wolfram Challenges leaderboard?
Wolfram Challenges has a leaderboard that features users that have completed the challenges in the 'best' way, according to specified criteria like efficiency or shortness of code.
Can I use ...
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Dropbox datastore
Dropbox seems to have a feature where it can be used as a database.
This would be really cool to use for memoized functions, that can be restored
on several computers and sessions.
I have a function ...
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Use URLFetch in init.m
I'm not able to use URLFetch in my $UserBaseDirectory/Kernel/Init.m as it always returns ...
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Getting data using webscraping (Obtaining links from search engine with redirect)
In the past I have used the function Import in relation with "Hyperlink" to collect hyperlinks and data from the internet.
For ...
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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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Access openai with HTTPRequest but body parameters seems not function
Using Mathematica 13.0 on Windows 10
codes are below
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What does this error message about chromedriver mean?
I have been using WebSession to drive a Chrome browser for automation purposes. I'm running Mathematica 13.2 on Ubuntu Linux. Occasionally, my Chrome browser gets updated by an automatic OS process. ...
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How to get satellite image directly from Mathematica?
First, I get the image of the bands of the desired area from the site https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/, then I import the images into Mathmatica by addressing them as below:
Select dataset directory:
<...
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Parsing JavaScript Script from XML Trees
I've been trying to parse some script written in JavaScript while scraping a website, and am a little confused what functions are needed to get this done in Mathematica.
I imported the data using <...
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Dynamic WebImageSearch
I am a little bit lost here, I'd be really grateful if someone could help me. :) We are working on a "video" (actually images with transitions).
We are having a list of specific words eg.:
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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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Uploading an image to a CloudDeploy Wolfram Language web app
I want to do image processing using the Wolfram Language on a web app hosted on the Wolfram Cloud.
The user must be able to upload a PNG image to the Wolfram Cloud, how can I set this up?
I've ...
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What could cause an "Uncaught Throw[$Failed,CURLLink`Utilities`Exception] returned to top level." error message?
I am running a program in Mathematica that uses web browser automation, and is also connected to my email account. The program runs fine for a while, but after a few hours, I end up getting the ...
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How to call Imgur API
My image host returns a link starting with http://. It seems this format is not supported in SE anymore. To avoid this, I want to change the image host to Imgur. ...
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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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