Is it possible to update your programs information from other websites? I mean if you have like a stock program or currency program, the data changes everyday. So can you recieve updates from websites, and change this info? If so could you point me to a site that explains how, or some kind of api that can achieve this?
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Jump to PostYes you can, but it is likely against the accaptable use policy of the site.
What you'd have to do is use an HttpURLConnection to retrieve the page containing the data you want and extract that which you want.
A more appropriate solution is to contact the site …
Jump to Postit can be done.
Reading the data itself isn't hard, the hard part is finding out what part of the data is the relevant part for you (and if they're as sneaky as we were they change the html regularly to make it impossible to automate the process).
It would …
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