Visit a website

R_Chung — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:33:08 GMT

Hello, everyone, another funny issue.

I would like to use sas di to navigate a website. Is there any suggestion to do it, say just want to visit http://google.com

I have searched for SOAPand RESTtransformation, seems SOAPis not suitable as it is about web service on the server. REST would be similar what I want to do.

Thanks

Re: Visit a website

RW9 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:21:18 GMT

In what sense? Do you want to extract data from a data provider, or just get the HTML web page for some scraping? If you want to extract from a data provider, then proc http:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/70377/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0bdg5vmrpyi7jn1pbgbje2atoov.htm

Is likely a good canidate.

If its just a call to a web page to get the variosu html pages back then filename url is likely the first candidate. Some searches from here on the subject:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/webscraping-links-from-a-web-page/td-p/317764/page/2

https://communities.sas.com/t5/General-SAS-Programming/Webpage-scraping-using-SAS/td-p/312396

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