I am trying to take data from https://financials.morningstar.com/ratios/r.html?t=0P0000032S&culture=en&platform=sal and use the values in the table in a Google sheet. This is table1 when I inspect the element but when I use:
=IMPORTHTML("https://financials.morningstar.com/ratios/r.html?t=0P0000032S&culture=en&platform=sal","table",1)
on google sheets, it says the imported content is empty? Any help on how to import this data?
I've tried importhtml using table number references found when I inspected the page.
unfortunately, that won't be possible because the site is controlled by JavaScript and Google Sheets can't understand/import JS. you can test this simply by disabling JS for a given link and you will see a blank page:
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Today when experimenting with using importXML in Google Sheets, I ran into a problem. I was attempting to import the title header of a USTA Tournament page into the Google Sheet, however, this did not work as it just resulted in the HTML title of the webpage being displayed ('TournamentHome'). Below is the Google Sheet, and the website that is used:
Google Sheet and Function:
=importXML(F2, "//html//body[#id='thebody']//div[#id='content']//div[#id='pagetitle']")
Website and Section of Source Code Being Used
The title that I am trying to extract from the website is TOWPATH 24th ANNUAL THANKSGIVING JR SINGLES.
The link to the website is https://m.tennislink.usta.com/tournamenthome?T=225779
update:
=REGEXEXTRACT(QUERY(ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(IMPORTDATA(
"https://m.tennislink.usta.com/tournamenthome?T=225779"), 555, 1),
"where Col1 contains 'escape'"), "\(""(.*)""\)")
unfortunately, that won't be possible the way you trying because the field you attempt to scrape is controlled by JavaScript and Google Sheets can't understand/import JS. you can test this simply by disabling JS for a given link and you will see what exactly can be imported into Google Sheets:
How about this sample formula? In this formula, the title value is directly retrieved from the script before the value is put to #pagetitle. Please think of this as just one of several answers.
Sample formula:
=REGEXEXTRACT(IMPORTXML(A1,"//div[#class='tournament_search']/script"),"escape\(""([\w\s\S]+)""")
Result:
When https://m.tennislink.usta.com/TournamentHome/tournament.aspx?T=38079 and https://m.tennislink.usta.com/tournamenthome?T=225779 are put in "A1" and "A2", the results are as follows.
Reference:
REGEXEXTRACT
I couldn't manage to write the correct XPATH code to import a number from the following page into my google sheet cell. I want to use the IMPORTXML function of google sheet.
Any help is highly appreciated in advance.
Source page: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=AED
The number I want to insert into a cell is shown below
Tried
//div[#id='rates_detail_desc']/strong[2]
I'm trying to Import a table from "https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-NEW-ALTERNATOR-VW-GOLF-GTI-GL-GLS-1-8T-1-8-2L-99-06-90A-1-YR-WARRANTY-13852/301364941754?fits=Model%3AJetta&hash=item462ac013ba:g:v7oAAOSw~YRagU4N&vxp=mtr" to a Google Spread sheet using =IMPORTXML function, The Formula I was using as below,
A1 = https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-NEW-ALTERNATOR-VW-GOLF-GTI-GL-GLS-1-8T-1-8-2L-99-06-90A-1-YR-WARRANTY-13852/301364941754?fits=Model%3AJetta&hash=item462ac013ba:g:v7oAAOSw~YRagU4N&vxp=mtr
A2 = //*[#id="w1-20ctbl"]
A3 = =IMPORTXML(A1,A2)
But it returns nothing and It says "Imported content is empty."
Can Somebody help me, I'm new to google sheet scripting and I'll really grateful if somebody can help me.
waiting to hearing from somebody....
Thanks
You cannot access the pictured table using IMPORTXML or any built-in Google Sheets formula because the table is generated when a user visits the website.
If you look at the page source, you'll see that the table does not exist. IMPORTPATH looks at this page source, which is the content before javascript rendering by the browser. When you "inspect" an element in your browser, it's inspecting the content after the javascript has been rendered.
Unfortunately, there is not a simple way to get the data you're looking for. You'll have to find or build your own scraping tool. Be careful not to violate eBay terms of use or any local laws.
The website is : https://www.futbin.com/18/player/2600/Ayhan/
I inspect the element and get the XPath which is: //*[#id="ps-lowest-1"]
Then I use:
=IMPORTXML("https://www.futbin.com/18/player/2600/Ayhan/","//*[#id='ps-lowest-1']")
To get the data which should be 2000
But instead it only shows: - on the sheet. No errors just doesn't show the data that I want it to. Is there anyway to get the data that I need?
Thanks
The Sheets command importXML reads only the HTML source of the page without executing any JavaScript on it. As you can see yourself by using "view source" in the browser, the source indeed has "-" in that span:
<span class="price_big_right">
<span id="ps-lowest-1">-</span>
</span>
The actual numbers are loaded by some JavaScript file which then inserts them in that span. Neither importXML nor other Sheets functions can retrieve dynamically inserted data.
Sometimes, after inspecting the JS files, one can uncover the URL of source of data and try to import that; but this is a tedious reverse engineering exercise for each particular site.
I encounter the error message imported content is empty when I use the formula below in google spreadsheet.
=IMPORTXML("https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/pressRoom.html", "//div[#class='article highlight']/h3/a/#title")
I am trying to import the list of press release title on the webpage.
What am I doing wrong?
So this issue is not your formula or XML in this particular case, its that the content is loaded using jQuery, so you need to figure out where or what the url is that actually holds your content.