topic Mashup-Copy text from object in App Development

Mashup-Copy text from object

robert_mika — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 07:56:42 GMT

Anyone experience such a challenge?

Lets say if I want to copy any text from this Demo website:

Market Size & Share

Either thru native option , extension or script.

Re: Mashup-Copy text from object

ErikWetterberg — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:14:38 GMT

Hi,

The reason this does not work is some css:

html, body {
  user-select: none;
}

This is included in Qlik Sense stylesheet, so generally copying text does not work in a Qlik Sense mashup. To copy you need to modify the css, which you can do in developer tools. Just set:

user-select:text;

on the element you want to copy, and it will work.

Hope this helps

Erik Wetterberg

Re: Mashup-Copy text from object

petter — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:40:37 GMT

I think a highly dynamic webpage/site of this sort demands more sophisticated software to do "web/data scraping". Something like this perhaps:

Data Scraping Studio™ - Web Scraping & Data Extraction Software

(Be aware of the legal consequences that might kick in if you pull data this way)

Qlik Sense native webfile with this in a load script:

LOAD
  *
FROM
  LIB://INTRO(txt);

Would return this:

Which indicates that a headless-browser (or similar approach) needs to be used to retrieve all of the webpage content and into a final DOM that needs to be parsed.