It's not a need, rather a 'must' to scrape various My Contribution sub-pages, which again this morning slapped me in the face. 'So happens' (David Carradine uses these 2 words quite a few times in his role as Bill), this morning I loaded a second Excel app, that set the separators back to decimal comma, thousand separator point, when it is required to be in point comma when scraping e.g. My Statistics History and Device Stats (There's a third one but momentarily escapes me). Has to be as any number greater than 999 will get misinterpreted as having a fraction so e.g. 1,999 arrives as 1.999 until hitting the million results/points, where the value gets imported as text, or weirder, the commas get all put at the end so for 1,234,567,890 at times shows up as 1234567890,,,.
Somewhere over a year ago we discussed the 3 particular MC pages for which we'd like xml pull ability by suffixing the web address with ?xml=true, but just trying, it's still no go (tried in vain, as surely this would have been advertised as implemented). More importantly, do away for those pages with the need to sign in before scraping and use
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/verifyMember.do?name=MEMBERNAME&code=VERIFICATIONCODE features as can be used for the main MC page pulls.
Any progress on this long standing matter?
Thx