Comments on: Importing HTML into Google Docs spreadsheets

By: glumetzu

glumetzu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:30:03 +0000

Please help. I need to import a table from web to GoogleDocs but to get to that page i have to login with user name and password. Any solutions?

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:42:43 +0000

[...] Importing HTML into Google Docs spreadsheets Rick Klau points [ g+ ] to a feature of Google Docs spreadsheets I didn’t know about (although I’m far from a spreadsheet maven): It can automatically include a table from any HTML document accessible on the Web. It turns out it can also include the contents of lists. It’s not the most intuitive feature. SPARQL. It still works. MORE >> 10 Tweets [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:11:27 +0000

Hi, Any idea how to import the top data (Aug 6th, 2012) from the table in http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=DBC&a=01&b=6&c=2006&d=07&e=7&f=2012&g=d

I can figure out how to import the whole table, but I just need that one particular data point (the first/most recent date on the table)

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:27:08 +0000

Had some fun with importHTML myself, followed by geocoding a bunch of data and running it through Google’s Spreadsheet Mapper tool to get a map of librarians doing the Library Day in the Life project last time around: http://andromedayelton.com/blog/2012/01/17/mapping-libday8/ (oh, and pulled in some Flickr and WordPress via RSS, and a Twitter hashtag, why not)

Was subsequently told it all would have been much easier with Google Fusion Tables, but never got around to wrapping my head around those.

(And in completely unrelated news, Kingsley Idehen’s daughter was in my daughter’s class a couple years ago. What a small internet we inhabit.)