I'm trying to automate some process that requires downloading a custom report created from Shopify Admin daily. I tried resort to Shopify API to manually pull orders via the Order API, however, the process requires going through pagination which took several minutes to go through a few thousands of orders while it will only a few seconds to manually export the csv file from the Shopify Admin page.
So I'm just wondering if it's possible to implement a service that export those custom reports that were created in Shopify Admin into a csv file without human interaction?
Cheers!
Sure. Just write some Javascript to run in the admin that will do the custom report for you, without pushing all the buttons you'd push manually. You can fake being human that way and automate things. Once you have that straightened away, you could setup a service that would run that scripting automatically when you wanted, say on a schedule.
Of course, the old pokey way you pointed out is probably way easier, but as you say, it takes minutes and hey, who has minutes to spare!
I am not sure if it can solve your problem. I use a cloud data platform (not Shopify Apps) called Acho to retrieve data from Shopify and then export the report to Google Sheets automatically. Sometimes, I also create my own reports on the platform before exporting them to Google Sheets. I think it can somehow reduce lots of manual works. You can try its free trial if you are interested.
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I have data in a csv file & want to do the following with it:
Log into web site
Populate field of the page with the csv data
Navigate to next page
Input the rest of data
Click submit
Repeat for next line
I can do this using UiPath but it's an expensive option for a relatively simple use case.
Any one any suggestions on how do this using a different method?
Thanks,
EddieT
If you're looking for alternatives then you probably would want to investigate APIs or Webhooks. But that all depends on the access rights you have for that particular website.
Try messaging the Developers of the website you need as they might have this service already available.
UiPath may appear expensive but if you calculate the amount of time saved for this one process then you will see the money savings too.
If you can find a couple of other processes you want to automate then I'd highly recommend it.
I am in the process of creating an app that will log certain amounts of data for teachers. While the data will be kept somehow within the app, is there a way to integrate the use of google forms or sheets with the data?
For example, if I use my app to record data (say that a student was coming to class tardy), is there a way to have that data go to a google sheet/form and always see live data as it's being used through my app?
Thanks!
Mike
You can build a form in your app that posts data to a standalone google-app script. The app-script can then append the data to any google sheet you specify. I'd also like to recommend Google data studio for displaying real-time data, as it will save a lot of time on not coding the data display ui.
I have some scripts running from GSheet getting data from BigQuery. However, in order to make the files run, I need to manually enable the API every time for a given sheet.
So the question is: How to enable API within the code, so that if I share the GSheet or make a copy I don't have to go to the script editor and enable the API from there?
Thanks
I am a huge fan of this particular use of the Google ecosystem, so I'm happy to help get others up and running using GSheets with BigQuery! Hopefully it is working well for you!
When sharing the sheet with others, there is no need to alter anything in the script editor at all. The scripts should run and query BigQuery without issue; this has been my experience at least. The obvious caveat to this is that the users you share it with must have access to the Google Developer Project that the BigQuery instance is associated with.
However, when copying the sheet, I do not believe it is possible to have it replicate the connection. This is because when the file is copied, it becomes associated with a new Google Developer Project. Thus, you have to go into the script editor, then go to Resources > Developers Console Project and change the project listed to the one in which you have BigQuery enabled.
Hopefully this helps! Sorry I don't have better news for you!
assume I have some thesis etc. and want to give the audience the possibility to download the coding part and test it;
Is there a platform for professionally upload it and also keep it there permanently (of course it should not be deleted within a couple of months)
Thanks for your help...
You can use tools such as Git-hub or bitbucket. These allow you to upload code and even have version control. Users can download your code directly and use it if they need to.
I was wanting to use a file sharing server to keep certain files up-to-date and constant across multiple instances of my application across multiple computers - like (for example) writing a multiplayer game, which stores all the player's positions in a text file, and uses something like Dropbox to keep the text file constant across all the applications, and each application instance can change the file with that application's player's position, and then the rest of the applications can update accordingly. This is only an example, and is not what I intend to do using this technology. What I want to do does not rely on fast sharing of data very quickly - but only periodically downloading and updating the text file.
I was wondering how I might be able to do this using the Dropbox API for Objective-C without prompting the user for any Dropbox username/password - just store a single Dropbox account's login information, log into it automatically and update/download the file stored on it?
From what I have found out from experimenting, Dropbox prompts users for their passwords via a web-broswer, and is designed to accommodate multiple accounts, whereas I only need to accommodate the 'Server' account.
So, is there anyway to do this sort of thing using the Dropbox API, or should I use something else. Or do I need to find out how to write my own server. Using some sort of file sharing API seems a lot easier to me than writing an actual server.
Thanks for any help,
Ben
You might think about using Google App Engine (GAE). I had a similar requirement recently and I'm thinking this is a good option when you want centralized data. Plus you can do the no-browser account login by using your own custom authentication, or I think it's even possible via OAuth? Depends on how sensitive the data is I guess. I just rolled my own.
From my research I found that using Dropbox as a server has some issues with scalability, since you'll be limited to maybe 5,000 calls per day. source It's built on Amazon S3, so you could also look at using that directly.
GAE lifts that limit up to 675,000, but can be increased up to 91 million for free.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas
I did find an open-source project for doing this with Java, alternative you could look at Python example
I've written a daemon that continuously checks for updated files and syncs them. I wrote it for my own file manager iOS app. You can find the implementation here:
https://github.com/H2CO3/MyFile/tree/master/DropboxDaemon
I'm personally not an iOS developer but I came across this question while looking for something else and thought I would offer up another potential solution to the OP's question.
Microsoft just released something called Azure Mobile Services which supports iOS development (among other platforms). It's basically a convenient way to set up a back end system complete with push notifications, authentication, etc. without rolling your own. You don't need to know anything about Azure or servers as the setup process walks you through most of it. It is new so keep that in mind, but it looks promising for situations like this.
Here's a 10 minute video explaining how to use it with an iOS developed app along with links to more documentation:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/iOS-Support-in-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services/
Hope this helps.