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Posted: March 20 2019 at 15:33 | IP Logged Quote GadgetGuy
I stopped getting my local weather temperature
readings a few weeks ago and finally discovered it was
because Weather Underground has terminated their free
API access after IBM purchased them.

After an extensive search I discovered that
AccuWeather had a similar API feature that is free but
limited to 50 inquiries a day or about one every 30
minutes (which is OK for my needs).

But when I only changed my URL Scraper .ini file to
this new data supplier I am getting nothing (however
the URL link used in the .ini works fine in a browser
and produces the expected data).

The Scraper Plugin never Triggers the Macro that
processes it, but I can't figure out what the real
issue is and the RegEx tester site indicates I am
matching correcting.

So my question Dave (or anyone).... is there a way to
force execution of the Trigger so it can be tested?



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Posted: March 21 2019 at 13:30 | IP Logged Quote GadgetGuy
I discovered why I was not ever getting any scape action.... I had an invalid character in my regex search string that aborted any search attempts.

Thus the Trigger was obviously not firing either.

As an aside here, I found a wonderful regex debugging tool at https://www.editpadpro.com/ where you can get a FREE text editor that searches with regex strings too so you can test your attempts to extract data and see what is going on.

Dave.... it would be nice to have a product enhancement that allowed you to right-click on a Setup Plugins entry line with a "Play" or "Check Formula" type result that fired off a scrape so you didn't have to sit around waiting for an automatic scrape to occur.


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