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fauguste
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Load data from an online csv file

Is it possible to load data from csv files found on a website without downloading the csv files? It's an https website, not an FTP.

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stevedark
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

Hi,

The ability to load directly from a CSV has been hampered by a security measure, designed to protect against injection of code into Sense.

This article may provide some useful insights into how you can get to your CSV files:
https://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/load-online-csv-into-qlik/

This may or may not work for you, based on what authentication is required and how the files are presented by the web server.

Hope it helps.

Steve

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Lisa_P
Employee
Employee

Loading files from web resources

You can load files from web resources, such as FTP, HTTP or HTTPS, with a web file data connection. The file can be of any type supported by Qlik Sense. You need to make the following settings to the data connection.

Note:This functionality is not available in Kubernetes.
Settings for a web file data connection
UI item Description
URL

Full URL to the web file you want to connect to, including the protocol identifier.

Example: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/Dec.%202012/1a.xls

If you connect to an FTP file you may need to use special characters, for example : or @, in the user name and password part of the URL. In this case you need to replace special characters with a percent character and the ASCII hexadecimal code of the character. For example, you should replace : with '%3a', and @ with '%40'.

Name Name of the data connection.
fauguste
Contributor
Contributor
Author

I've established the web file connection, but I'm being told that "No table found in the HTML file".  I have multiple csv files on the website-see picture below.Is it because it's not an FTP website?

I've tried  the following (edited) URL to select that specific csv: https://iss............./pzrfchr_pebempl.csv    and I've tried https://iss.........edu:8443/#/  which is the URL for that whole page. I've tried other websites and it works when there are actual tables on the website and not csv files.

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ken4runner
Creator
Creator

having the same problem, and havent found this documented anywhere yet.

stevedark
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

Hi,

The ability to load directly from a CSV has been hampered by a security measure, designed to protect against injection of code into Sense.

This article may provide some useful insights into how you can get to your CSV files:
https://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/load-online-csv-into-qlik/

This may or may not work for you, based on what authentication is required and how the files are presented by the web server.

Hope it helps.

Steve

Ayayo
Contributor
Contributor

I am also having the same problem, Here is an alternative, just used this converter to convert CSV file or CSV URL into Qlik table format. hope it can help you.

https://tableconvert.com/csv-to-qlik