Am trying to pull out date fr4om Money control form this function (https://www.moneycontrol.com/indices/fno/view-option-chain/BANKNIFTY/2022-07-28) what could be the formula for This & how we get multiple stock data like nifty, banknifty ,& stocks in variable expiry i used this this ( =IMPORTHTML("https://www.moneycontrol.com/indices/fno/view-option-chain/"&AD3&"/"&W253"","table",2)) but error occurred
I was able to successfully import the table from the mentioned URL using the following formula:
=IMPORTHTML("https://www.moneycontrol.com/indices/fno/view-option-chain/BANKNIFTY/2022-08-04", "table", 2, "en_US")
However you've mentioned that an error ocurred, but you haven't shared the error...
Since you are concatenating parameters to the URL being fetched, I'd recommend investigating the end result of the concatenation and try accessing that newly concatenated URL on a browser to see if it works.
Additionally, I’d recommend adhering to the How to Ask guidelines in order for your questions to be properly answered by the community as well as to provide a minimal reproducible example when posting a question.
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I am unable to get Exchange name NYSE using =SUBSTITUTE(substitute(importxml(D4,H1),"[",""),"]",""), I receive error message "Resource at url not found". Url in D4 is https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t="&C12, Xpath in H1 is //span[#class='body-table']. However when I change the url to https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=A, it correctly display NYSE.
Am I using the correct formula when referencing a cell as part of the url (ie "&C12), or are websites now restricting you from referencing tickers in cell, as this used to work before. I also checked on Marketwatch which is also rejecting this function with an error message of "Imported content is empty".
try:
=REGEXREPLACE(IMPORTXML("https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t="&A1,
"//span[#class='body-table']"), "[\[\]]", )
Thanks for the regreplace solution, actually all with and without regreplace or substitute are now working again, as they were previously, on both Finviz and Marketwatch. I guess it was just an internet glitch caused by the downtime a couple of days ago. Thanks for the quick reply. This question can now be closed.
Currently in my google doc, i'm working on a database for my card worth, and it seems like it doesn't want to grab the information no matter what xpath i want to attempt.
Website i'm trying to take information available here. *This is the hyperlink i'm feeding
In the top right corner i'm attempting to grab the worth box information, here is current xpaths i've attempted
"//a[#id='worthBox']/h4"
"/html/body/div[4]/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[1]/div[2]/div/a/h4"
"/h4"
"/h4[0-20]"
"//a[#id='worthBox'][1]/h4"
"//div[#id='estimate-box']/a/h4"
"//div[#id='estimate-box']/a[1]/h4"
Can someone explain to me why it doesn't seem to wanna fetch, is it even possible?
Thank you so much for your time and help!
In the URL, the value is put using the Javascript. But IMPORTXML cannot retrieve the result after Javascript was run. IMPORTXML retrieves the HTML without running Javascript. I think that your xpath is the result after Javascript was run. By this, they cannot be used. But it seems that the value you expect can be retrieved other xpath.
Modified xpath:
//input[#id='medianHiddenField']/#value
Sample formula:
=IMPORTXML(A1,"//input[#id='medianHiddenField']/#value")
In this case, the URL of https://mavin.io/search?q=Lugia%20NM%209%2F111%20-PSA&bt=sold# put in the cell "A1".
Result:
Reference:
IMPORTXML
I was trying to import a table from hket website to run some analysis of my own.
When I used: =importxml("http://www1.hket.com/finance/chart/industry-index.do","//*[#id='eti-finance-chart-table']") which represents the link to the site, I am getting the "N/A" error.
The importxml works fine with gurufocus site.
Can you help me out? I haven't been able to figure out what the issue could be.
from what I understand, hket doesn't use HTML or XML format for their table. If that is the case, is there a script I can use in Google Sheets that will let me extract data from hket?
you can see the culprit if you run this formula:
=IMPORTXML("http://www1.hket.com/finance/chart/industry-index.do", "//*")
I have recently opened a new spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo/pubhtml
I want to find 'title' which url=http://www.ettoday.net/news/20140327/339912.htm
I read google api doc and tried this:
spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo/0/private/full?sq=url%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peoplenews.tw%2Fnews%2F29813808-befa-45b6-9123-8dcef851af45%27
but it didn't work.
I also tried:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo/gviz/tq?tq=SELECT%20topic20WHERE%20url%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peoplenews.tw%2Fnews%2F29813808-befa-45b6-9123-8dcef851af45'
but it didn't work either.
are there any way to do this kind of query?
I know this is old, but I just worked through a similar issue.
Querying a google spreadsheet via URL params requires the use of their data visualization query language (nearly identical to SQL).
Your query must be encoded then added as a parameter to the end of your URL (google provides an encoder with its document on this here).
Using your example url (notice no "/pubhtml"):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo
To query this sheet, you must append this URL with /gviz/tq?tq=YOUR_ENCODED_QUERY_STRING
YOUR_ENCODED_QUERY_STRINGfor your case would be:
SELECT * where B contains "ettoday"
Note #1 - I used "B" and not "url". This is because you must query based on the spreadsheet cell identifier (A-Z), not the label/contents.
Note #2 - I could not get it to work when I queried with a fully quallified URL, so I used contains instead.
After encoding that string we get:
SELECT%20*%20where%20B%20contains%20%22ettoday%22
Slap that onto your URL (with /gviz/tq?tq=) and you have:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo/gviz/tq?tq=SELECT%20*%20where%20B%20contains%20%22ettoday%22
Which works for me :)
The spreadsheets.google.com query is the old method of accessing the google spreadsheets.
The new method involves the docs.google.com query.
Here is a working one:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1chFDkz5Fqus1ODgtdEGNt4Mq2nxnkKnuqbEB4LaZF6o/gviz/tq
That was retrieved from:
query to new google spreadsheets
Some of the old query parameters still work, such as "?range=A1:B", however not all of them do. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a good reference for the new API. Google claims that all the features of V1 and v2 of the api are available in this new one, but it sure doesn't feel like it to me.
Note: the old query method still works with the old version of google spreadsheets and you should use it if you haven't converted the sheet you are using. The new method is just for sheets that have been converted.
Note2: Google forms no longer seems to work consistently with the old spreadsheets, so you will probably be forced to delete the old sheet and have the form generate a new one which will be the new version and require the new url to query it.
try this
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1yapaaaFn0mtJF0CMiIil4Y1uYCqS97jIWL4iBZMPAKo/gviz/tq?tqx=out:html&tq=SELECT+*+where+B+contains+"http://www.ettoday.net/news/20140327/339912.htm"
tq=SELECT+*+where+B+contains+"http://www.ettoday.net/news/20140327/339912.htm"
SELECT * where B contains "http://www.ettoday.net/news/20140327/339912.htm"
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Scraping data to Google Sheets from a website that uses JavaScript
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Using this webpage as an example http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1688317
On a google spreadsheet, the following DO NOT work with importxml():
//a[contains(#href,"showpost")]/#href
//a[contains(#href,"showcount")]/#href
//*[#id="postcount18545482"]
The last one (//*[#id="postcount18545482"]) was copied directly from Chrome's element viewer.
The following DO work but exclude any results with the word "showcount", "postcount", or "showpost":
//div[contains(#id,"post_message")]/#id
//a[contains(#href,"show")]/#href
//a[contains(#href,"post")]/#href
Is there something special about the word "count" when working with importxml() or XPATH? How can I get the missing entries?
ImportXML function in Google Docs spreadsheet can not process data that is created in a two-step process. For example, when an authentication token must be retrieved first before making the url request, or when the URL tells the server to dynamically create an xml output after which the user is redirected to the output, even when the URL stays the same. You might want to look into Google Apps Scripts (http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/index.html) to handle this case.
Taken from here
In your particular case the anchor parameters get set in the vbulletin_post_loader.js script called after the page container is loaded.
...
pc_obj=fetch_object("postcount"+this.postid);
openWindow("showpost.php?"+(SESSIONURL?"s="+SESSIONURL:"")
+(pc_obj!=null?"&postcount="+PHP.urlencode(pc_obj.name):"")+"&p="+A)
...
In other words, when importXML() scans the page, the nodes containing 'showpost' or 'postcount' in href are not yet on the page:
Looks like importXML() works with static pages only and not able to handle dynamically loaded content.
Try to find another way of obtaining the number of post in a thread.