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Obsidian | Level 7 JAR
Obsidian | Level 7

I am trying to get data (nearly 4000 rows) from a page, which has an infinite scroll. Proc HTTP reads only the first 100 rows. 

Could someone please help me to solve this!

 

JAR

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japelin
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Can you provide the code including the url?

JAR
Obsidian | Level 7 JAR
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello Kawakami,

Kindly excuse my style, as I am not professionally trained to write SAS programs:

 

 

%let site="https://www.investing.com/crypto/currencies";
filename source temp;

PROC HTTP
URL = &site
OUT = source
METHOD = "GET";
RUN;

 

DATA Temp(DROP = line);
INFILE source LENGTH = recLen LRECL = 32767;
INPUT line $VARYING32767. recLen;
do until (_Top);
_Top=find(_infile_,'<table class="genTbl openTbl');
if not _Top then input;
end;
do until (_Bottom);
input;
_Bottom=find(_infile_,'</table>');
if _Bottom then STOP;
else do;
Record=_infile_;
output;
end;
end;
Drop _:;
Run;

Data Temp2;
rx1=prxparse("s/<.*?>//");
set temp (firstObs=16);
length result FinalResult $ 2000;
Retain result;
if mod(_n_, 12) ne 0 then result=cats(result, "|", record);
else do;
finalResult=result;
call prxchange(rx1,-1,FinalResult);
result ="";
end;
If FinalResult="" then delete;
Keep FinalResult;
/*I will use scan() to extract each variable from FinalResult*/

run;

japelin
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

The data embedded in the html source seems to only have the 1st to 100th place to begin with.
I think the javascript (window.siteData.defaultDomainCurrData part) is probably updating the data in real time.

 

I don't think proc http can handle javascript.

 

I found this paper, but I'm not sure if it's helpful.
https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2019/3169-2019.pdf

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