I’ve been doing my Google JSON display using Angular but I wanted to see what I could do with jQuery. This is based on the post here by Amit (to whom I am grateful for all the great stuff he puts out) with minor updates due to changes in how Google does things. Do make […]
I had a spreadsheet that entered blank cells when there was more than one admin for a WordPress site. So if Site_1 had two admins, I’d get two rows of data. The first row for the site would have- siteURL | siteTitle | siteAdmin but the second row for that site would have something like- […]
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I had an interesting conversation with a pair of elementary school teachers. It led to me saying I’d put our two older kids on Good Reads in lieu of some less pleasant ways of documenting their reading. It’s not a place I’d necessarily drop a group of 3rd graders. As we spoke, I figured I […]
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Because I love Alan. Here’s the API version in Google Script to grab YouTube stats. It does a bit more than the previous XPath version and you can set it to be triggered repeatedly. I’m going to add a loop to add multiple videos etc. in the near future but it’s a good start for […]
APIs can give you much more power but they are often overkill for what people are trying to around here- lightweight social media Here’s a lightweight example of how you can use Google Sheets and the IMPORTXML function to grab quite a bit of data from various video pages with no API or technical skills. […]
I’m messing around with some workflows to figure out how I’m spending some of my time . . . and, as a result, spending some of my time on how I spend my time. One of those efforts is trying to get some decent numbers around how my own efforts towards rampages support are going. […]
via the magical XKCD Fun being a fairly relative term . . . but I’m amused. The Meat You can write custom functions in Google Spreadsheets and then use them like other built in functions. I didn’t realize that. The script below1 grabs all the URLs from a chunk of text. You could add it […]
Some people don’t have websites handy or their blogs won’t allow iframe embeds. They should still be able to have their students do stuff and get it all in one place. This is the Internet! And this tool is meant to deal with that. You can see a working example with three submissions (via a […]
flickr photo shared by Kecko under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license Man. This was a slog and really highlighted gross inadequacies in my conceptual understanding of pretty much everything. That being said, with an end-around, it works. The whole thing is below but there were really two pieces where I got stuck and […]
flickr photo shared by CraigMoulding under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license Just two little functions in Google Sheets that came up as we tried to quickly pull comments from a blog for some other work. It was an odd scenario but the techniques should have other useful applications. IMPORTFEED The function below pulls […]
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