Many Web pages use forms to capture data from site users. This data can be particularly valuable in commercial and business sites. If you are responsible for such a site, you may need to retrieve data ...

Web query files are spreadsheets that Microsoft Excel creates using data from Web pages. For example, if your business wants to analyze stock data, a Web query can extract such data from a financial ...

In February, Google released a easter egg named blink HTML that made some of the words in the search results blink on the screen. But as Enrico Altavilla noticed and posted on Google+, it also works ...

As I discussed in my article on the Semantic Web for our Crackpot Tech feature on February 19th, the standard Web was originally designed for document distribution, and has yet to realize its full ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Query federation is a way to make use of distributed data sources on the Web, including many SPARQL endpoints as well as relational databases. SWObjects makes use of mapping rules represented as ...

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet--but Excel isn't as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...

In the hopes of reducing the complexity of making data calls over the Web, eBay has launched a programming language, called ql.io, which bundles separate API requests into a single call. “ql.io can ...