'Importxml() returned "empty cells" or "formula parse error"
I tried Importhtml ("https://nepsealpha.com/investment-calandar/dividend","table",) and then Importxml("https://nepsealpha.com/investment-calandar/dividend",xpath). I found out xpath from "selectorgadget" extension of googlechrome, but still couldn't import it. It shows either "empty content" or formula parse error".
Need help!
Solution 1:[1]
I know that's not the answer you want to see. It's impossible to get any content from this website using IMPORTXML or other tools included in Google Sheets.
It's generated using Javascript. Once Javascript is disabled no content is displayed:
It's done on purpose. Financial companies pay for live stock data and they don't want to share it with us for free. So the site is protected against tools like importxml.
Solution 2:[2]
You can retrieve quite all the informations this way
=importxml(url,"//div/@data-page")
and then parse the json.
By script : =getData("https://nepsealpha.com/investment-calandar/dividend")
function getData(url) {
var from='data-page="'
var to='"></div></body>'
var jsonString = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText().split(from)[1].split(to)[0].replace(/"/g,'"')
var json = JSON.parse(jsonString).props.today_prices_summary.top_volume
var headers = Object.keys(json[0]);
return ([headers, ...json.map(obj => headers.map(header => obj[header]))]);
}
edit
to update periodically, add this script
function update(){
var chk = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheets()[0].getRange('A1')
chk.setValue(!chk.getValue())
}
put a trigger as you wish on the update function and change as follows
=getData("https://nepsealpha.com/investment-calandar/dividend",$A$1)
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | Krzysztof Dołęgowski |
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