Read data from an external webpage

Questions
1

Hi, is it possible for bubble to read data from an external webpage or website? Perhaps natively in bubble or via a plug-in?

Thanks for the help!

1 Like
2

Hi @collegefund.me welcome back!

I recommend you a web scrapper and hand the info over to Bubble.

3

There’s a few option but if you can give more information of what you are trying to do, we may be able to provide some more specific solution.

For example, if you need to grab all link or picture from a website, this is possible using a tool like Integromat https://www.integromat.com/en/integrations/regexp

Webscrapper can be useful (apify but there’s a lot more)

And sometimes, just a GET request with parsing (regex) is enough

2 Likes
4

Hi Jici, thank you. I am trying to check whether a specific rate is available on a hotel reservation system. I am familiar with regex in Bubble, however can you please elaborate on how the GET request can be set up? Thanks.

5

Just use API connector with GET to the page url and set to text for data type.

5 Likes
6

Sounds like a bug that needs to be squashed. @josh should this GET method even be possible?

Unnecessary resources might slow our apps.

7

@nocodeventure What do you mean?