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Tried searching for this and couldn't find much. Is there a package jQuery or otherwise that can present a small preview of a linked website.
I'd like to be able to more or less display a small feed of linked content for each sub niche on a social platform I'm creating. As an example let's say I wanted to link to a news website and display a live feed of updates in a niche of say tech updates for example almost akin to a live twitter feed plugin.
This would probably kill performance. Nonetheless, thought it was a cool idea and wondering if there's anything packages out there I can try this out with.
Well, if that news website provides an API to fetch news, you can keep making AJAX requests to their API URLs at regular intervals to retrieve latest news.
But if that website doesn't provide any API, make AJAX requests to your server, then at your server do some web-scraping and return the news to the AJAX request.
A solution is using HTML iFrame.
I would not recommend it though - loading your website would take a long time (because X iFrames needs to load as well).
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I was asked to rework our canteen's website to be more user-friendly to operate for the chef and other staff, who are unfamiliar with coding and content management systems. More specifically, we have a menu page where the meals for the next 3 weeks are displayed, and I was asked to make it easier to update said page.
I figured that the simplest approach would be to create a spreadsheet in Google Sheets or Excel and to pull the data - so the names of meals and some dates - into the HTML page from there, so that whenever the staff needs to update the information, they can just edit the spreadsheet instead of bothering with the backend of the website.
My first approach was to try and connect the HTML to a Google Sheet using Google Apps Script, but this proved difficult since I don't actually know any JavaScript and expected the whole ordeal to be simpler.
I tried following some tutorials I found online, but they a) were mostly for extracting entire tables, not just singular pieces of data and b) they didn't work. I thought about using an actual database program in the hopes that would help, but I don't have access to Microsoft Access at the moment.
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I am a Java developer and I know Rest APIs. But what if I want to make great webpages using website building tools like WordPress and then with Rest API I can connect with my backend server.
Will that be a viable solution or I should look for something else?
On a very basic research I got to know that wordpress runs on PHP, but I am not looking to learn PHP at this point of time.
I am looking for the below things :
1 - Some tool which helps in building rich HTML page, that has drag
and drop options.
2 - I am thinking to use Spring boot for
configuring Rest API.
Basically I am looking for some suggestions in building good websites having knowledge of Java. (And yes I still need to learn Ajax and Javascript.)
I might be absolutely wrong on what I am looking, but any suggestion will be of great help.
A REST client (in your case a website) doesn't care what programming languages/technologies were used to create the server. You can have a server hosting a WordPress website (PHP) and have another server for your REST API created in Java or whatever other language you might want to use. If you want to make REST calls from your WordPress server (e.g. for server-side rendering), you'll need to use PHP. The more likely scenario is that the website makes REST requests from the browser, in which case you'll need to use JavaScript.
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I'm looking for a JavaScript library that does user hit/interface analytics just like Google analytics.
But,...
Im looking for a library that can track or analyse my user hits or interface on my web application and send the report to my function or api then I can choose to store the data in my database or server or anywhere else or it could also be chosen to store offline, instead of a third party server for analysis. Basically I should not be sending that data on to a third party server.
I might as well want the function or api to update the UI based on the users most used interaction immediately or upon arriving at the same page the next time.
So AFAIK, Google analytics does not do this, hence that's out of the list.
Is there any such JavaScript library that does this?
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You can try this analytics to do this. => Piwik
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I've a software developer having done most of my work in older technology stacks, and recently mobile iOS development. However I really know nothing about web other than a bit of HTML and interacting with web API's.
I recently purchased an out of the box template website to serve as a launching page for an application of mine. I would like to find out how many people are visiting my landing page. What's the best way to do this? Just go out and find some javascript applet that will do this for me? Where is the data/running-count stored? Or should my hosting provider (namecheap) provide this information to me automatically?
Install some sort of analytics script. A good one is Google analytics.
Its common for webhosting providers to have some sort of analytics engine running like awstats or webanalyzer.
Also you could create a free account in Google Analytics and follow the instruction to add a snippet of code to your page to count your visits.
Now if you also want to show a visit counter, the best alternative is to make it with some server side code and a database (or a file). It is relatively easy and if you post your server infrastructure (php, asp, mysql,postgres, etc) i could expand this answer with more help.
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There is a website which contains information we have paid for access to, however the only way available to access the information is through the website and there are 1400 records. So, since there is so much of it, we want to have the information in an excel spreadsheet which is manageable. However, the organization in charge of the website isn't willing to help.
I can write a python script that can parse the html and extract the relevant data, however, the problem is that the site is not easily crawlable because it is an ASP site and many of the "links" are in fact triggers to javascript which loads the destination page. This means that a tool like HTTrack doesn't really work.
Are there any other tools or python modules which can help me do this (bearing in mind the "javascript" links)? I'm totally new to this kind of thing, so I just have no experience of what kinds of things are available to me.
Jython + HtmlUnit may be very usefull in your task.
You can use Scrapy, which is a framework for scraping websites.