[libreoffice-users] RE: How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab specific web data into libre calc

Hi

I'm planning to use Ubuntu

I forgot to add that answer on my earlier reply


Regards


Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:05 -0700
From: ml-node+s969070n4051163h58@n3.nabble.com
To: Hisupiramani@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab specific web data into 
libre calc



        Hi :)

You are asking in the right place and hopefully someone might have a good 

answer for you or be able to point to places that might have more 

detailed knowledge of what you are looking for.  Most of us started with Windows and many of us 
still use it a lot.  



I tried a search for "smb" and then for "web" on our Extensions / Add-ons / Plug-ins site 


http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=&getCompatibility=any&sort_on=positive_ratings&path=%2FLibreOffice-Extensions-and-Templates%2Fextension-center&portal_type=PSCProject&SearchableText=web
but didn't find much.  It might be better to search in OpenOffice's 

Extensions as many of them probably still work well or have maintainers 

that might be interested in updating it in order to make it work in 

LibreOffice.  Also the OpenOffice forums might be a good place to post 

questions but if you do and post here as well then it's polite to let 

both places know when you have found an answer and what the answer was.  



Also most versions of Gnu&Linux (=distros) have their own forums and 

mailing lists so it might similarly be good to post questions there in a similar way.  Which distro 
do you use at the moment?  Ubuntu/Mint, 

Mageia, Fedora , openSUSE or which?  DistroWatch is a good place to 

look-up the official forum/mailing-list for your distro

http://distrowatch.com
for example to find the Ubuntu ones try here (it redirects)


http://distrowatch.com/ubuntu
for Fedora find some good links here

http://distrowatch.com/fedora

There is also a general-purpose forum at 


http://www.linuxquestions/org
that covers many, maybe all different distros but often you get answers from people using 
completely different distros, possibly even from different families so you sometimes have to figure 
out how to apply it to yours.  Most programs are either the same in each;  LibreOffice/OpenOffice, 

Firefox, Thunderbird and many others.  Sometimes they choose slightly 

different choices such as Chrome, Seamonkey, Opera instead of Firefox, similarly with utilities 
such as your  "package manager" so it doesn't take much to work out how to apply their advice and 
people at LinuxQuestions might even help with that.  



Also there are other LibreOffice places such as AskLibO


http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/

and other places you can find at 


http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/
but i still prefer this mailing-list.  



Good luck and regards from 


Tom :)  






> ________________________________

> From: Supiramani Supiramani <[hidden email]>

> To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> 

> Sent: Friday, 19 April 2013, 20:12

> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab 
> specific web data into libre calc

>

>

> please take a look at the image at 

> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/

> you will see it has 100s of data

>

> copy paste would take ages

>

>

>

> --------

> regards

>

>

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:02:08 -0500

> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab 
> specific web data into libre calc

> From: [hidden email]

> To: [hidden email]

> CC: [hidden email]

>

>       Could you highlight the area(s) you desire then copy then paste to wherever you wish the 
> data?

>            that's my system;

>       [but I may not be understanding to what you're referring since I have no clue as what smf 
> is  ;-)  ]

>

>

>

>

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Happylibre wrote:

>

>

> Hi

>

>

>

> Preamble ...skip if in a hurry

>

> --------------------------------------------

>

> *I've been on the m$ office treadmill for 15 + years

>

> *I've always been scared of Linux and thought it was all command line

>

> *Recently stumbled on Linux and libre office ...so I am  completely new to

>

> libre office

>

> *Used it for a few days ... Truly it's a great piece of software and

>

> dispelled most of my doubts on Linux, using Linux, libre office etc etc

>

>

>

> Question / request reading

>

> ------------------------------------------

>

> *However some specific doubts remain on libre office

>

> *I've been using M$ XL's add on for grabbing web data , called smf add in

>

> *When activated, once could easily grab specific pages, specific cells of

>

> web pages directly into xl ( without opening a web browser)

>

> *This is a great time saver

>

> *The only and only /  excellent  group for using smf add in  can be found at

>

> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/

> *Some  basic write up on using smf add in can be found here

>

> http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/326478-derek-a-barrett/1414481-automating-alpha-getting-started-with-stock-market-functions-smf-add-in-for-excel

>

>

>

> Now, my question is , is there a similar add in for libre office, when

>

> invoked , could help the user  get specific cells ( not the whole web page )

>

> from a URL  into libre xl sheets ? Of course the user supplies the URL

>

>

>

> Or is there some app in Linux that can do the same ?

>

>

>

> How do people grab specific web data ( not entire pages ) but specific data

>

> for web pages into libre calc ?

>

>

>

> Request to Moderators ; if I am posting on the wrong area or group please

>

> most this post accordingly

>

>

>

>

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Regards

>

>

>

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