How to get data from web?

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Adriano
Adriano on 10 May 2017
Commented: Adriano on 11 May 2017
Hello! I need to donwload the table and the datas in this url:
I tried with "webread", "urlfilter" and "getTableDataScript" but I didn't fix the problem. Anyone can help me?
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Jan
Jan on 10 May 2017
Please post your code and explain, which problems you have. It is easier to suggest a solution than to guess a problem.
Adriano
Adriano on 10 May 2017
Edited: Adriano on 10 May 2017
I don't have a code. With webread I get an html that is very confused. What I need is a table in which in first column I have the names of the categories and in the second column the YTD Return%. For example:
RV China - A Shares 0.65
RV India 18.94
RV Dinamarca 14.09
and so on. How Can I do it? Thanks!

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Ned Gulley
Ned Gulley on 11 May 2017
URLREAD expects US-style usage of commas and stops in numbers. So in a number like 150,228.17 it will ignore the comma and return 150228.17. We should re-write URLFILTER so that it can read numbers that use commas as the decimal point, but in the meantime there is a workaround.
For financial numbers, if you are certain there will be exactly 2 digits reported after the decimal point (which appears to be the case on www.morningstar.es/), then just take the output of URLFILTER and divide by 100.
url = 'http://www.morningstar.es/es/tools/categoryoverview.aspx?filterId=-1&lang=es-ES';
name = 'RV India';
raw_price = urlfilter(url,name)
actual_price = raw_price/100
raw_price =
1974
actual_price =
19.7400

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