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Recommended programming language for showing combined scraped webpages in an app and a Windows application?

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  • L Lost User

    Load all your "stuff" into a cloud drive; for all intents it's static content you're outputting. Then you can "browse" it with all your mobiles / PC's.

    It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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    Let's assume my web scraping applications find 100 rental cars and then it creates an html-document containing those 100 rental car offers. Now, let's assume I want to filter to only show the 10 cheapest cars, where would this be done? Would the cloud drive create a new, smaller html-file or could the html-file do this by itself somehow when I click a button?

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      Let's assume my web scraping applications find 100 rental cars and then it creates an html-document containing those 100 rental car offers. Now, let's assume I want to filter to only show the 10 cheapest cars, where would this be done? Would the cloud drive create a new, smaller html-file or could the html-file do this by itself somehow when I click a button?

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      How can a "cloud drive" manipulate data if it is "serverless"? (i.e. dumb) Any filtering / sorting would have to happen on the client; so to get "10", you need to download the whole "100" first. "Serverless" is an illusion; like the future. (Better yet, store CSV's one can open and manipulate in Excel)

      It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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        How can a "cloud drive" manipulate data if it is "serverless"? (i.e. dumb) Any filtering / sorting would have to happen on the client; so to get "10", you need to download the whole "100" first. "Serverless" is an illusion; like the future. (Better yet, store CSV's one can open and manipulate in Excel)

        It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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        What different programming languages, triggered from a button within html, can perform the sorting/filtering on the client side?

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          What different programming languages, triggered from a button within html, can perform the sorting/filtering on the client side?

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          Lost User
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          And language that can consume the DOM: C, C#, C++, VB, VB.NET, Java, Excel (VBA), blah and blah.

          It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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          • L Lost User

            And language that can consume the DOM: C, C#, C++, VB, VB.NET, Java, Excel (VBA), blah and blah.

            It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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            Could you please provide some example code or refer me to a beginner's guide (on the Internet) on how to implement the client-side Filter-10-Lowest-Prices-button event handler so that it ends up calling a method in C# that then modifies the html? What are the steps necessary in between?

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              Could you please provide some example code or refer me to a beginner's guide (on the Internet) on how to implement the client-side Filter-10-Lowest-Prices-button event handler so that it ends up calling a method in C# that then modifies the html? What are the steps necessary in between?

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              In your case, since Excel runs on Android and Windows, all you need is an Excel spreadsheet with your "100 cars" to support "roaming data"; anything else would be over-kill. Add some VBA for a "smart document".

              It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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              • L Lost User

                In your case, since Excel runs on Android and Windows, all you need is an Excel spreadsheet with your "100 cars" to support "roaming data"; anything else would be over-kill. Add some VBA for a "smart document".

                It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                Ok, so you're suggesting I abandon the thought of using a webbrowser+html-file and use an Excel-sheet instead?

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                  Ok, so you're suggesting I abandon the thought of using a webbrowser+html-file and use an Excel-sheet instead?

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                  Based on your requirements, use Excel. Your initial "solution" was premature.

                  It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                  • L Lost User

                    Based on your requirements, use Excel. Your initial "solution" was premature.

                    It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                    It seems Excel on Android doesn't support VBA...

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                      It seems Excel on Android doesn't support VBA...

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                      [Office Scripts: The future is here](https://theofficecontext.com/2020/04/03/office-scripts-the-future-is-here/)

                      It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                      • L Lost User

                        [Office Scripts: The future is here](https://theofficecontext.com/2020/04/03/office-scripts-the-future-is-here/)

                        It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                        Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Office Scripts appears to be introduced in Office 365 and to get Office 365 I would need to sign up for a subscription (I can't buy it once and be done paying money to Microsoft for Office 365)?

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                          Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Office Scripts appears to be introduced in Office 365 and to get Office 365 I would need to sign up for a subscription (I can't buy it once and be done paying money to Microsoft for Office 365)?

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                          This goes beyond "design and architecture". I'll stop now.

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                          • L Lost User

                            This goes beyond "design and architecture". I'll stop now.

                            It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                            Turns out I was wrong, in Excel 2013 and onwards it's possible to enable "Script Lap" as an add-in: Office Scripts vs Excel VBA (Everything you need to know) - YouTube[^]. Thanks for your suggestion, I will upgrade my Excel and give it a try.

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