I am looking for technology suggestions. Or if this can be done in native google sheets (note the site I am looking to access is behind a username and password).

I have a google sheet that looks like this

lets say on https://something.com/3920230 there is a HTML element 123

Twice a day I want to be able to refresh the data, this could be done by going into the spreadsheet and clicking/doing something.

Can this be done?

What if https://something.com/3920230 is behind a login (authentication). Note: I could be logged in to the website in a different tab... I don't think that would make a difference though...

Thanks, Keith

CodePudding user response：

Assuming you have a script that you would like to run twice a day, you can use Apps Script Time-driven triggers:

A time-driven trigger (also called a clock trigger) is similar to a cron job in Unix. Time-driven triggers let scripts execute at a particular time or on a recurring interval, as frequently as every minute or as infrequently as once per month. (Note that an add-on can use a time-driven trigger once per hour at most.)

If it's just some formulae, you can change the recalculation settings to be either On change, On change and every minute or On change and every hour under the File > Spreadsheet settings menu item and clicking on the Calculation tab.

CodePudding user response：

If you want to get data from public site(no login) you can use ImportXML. You can google a lot about it, for example

https://answerbun.com/personal-finance-money/get-revenue-details-in-google-sheets-using-google-finance/

If the page you want can only be accessed using login, this becomes a rather complicated task, especially using only apps script libraries (not much scraping lib support here)