Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly into ...

Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...

Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext ...

Connections from web pages and applications to databases are an important aspect of providing dynamic content to users. Web Services strives to maintain the integrity of its web servers and all ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

When Ensheng Dong co-created the Johns Hopkins University COVID‑19 Dashboard in January 2020, it was a labour of love. Dong, a systems engineer at the university in Baltimore, Maryland, had friends ...

Web data—it’s the world’s largest untapped source of data. Research firm Opimas speaks of the sweeping power of web data, as it “comprises a valuable portion of alternative datasets revolutionizing ...