Grab itens from website

How to grab some informations from a external website to insert it or show in a page or resource

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Hi @Sly. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave: ---------------------- To grab information from an external website and display it in a Refine application, you would use a dataProvider. A dataProvider in Refine allows your application to communicate with an external API or service. It uses predefined methods to send HTTP requests and receive responses. Here's an example of how to set up a dataProvider in your App.tsx file:

import jsonServerDataProvider from "@refinedev/simple-rest";  

function App() {  
 const API_URL = "<https://api.finefoods.refine.dev";>  
 const dataProvider = jsonServerDataProvider(API_URL);  

 return (  
 <BrowserRouter>  
 ...
 <Refine  
 ...
 dataProvider={dataProvider}  
 >  
 ...
 </BrowserRouter>  
 );  
}  

export default App;

import jsonServerDataProvider from "@refinedev/simple-rest";  

function App() {  
 const API_URL = "<https://api.finefoods.refine.dev";>  
 const dataProvider = jsonServerDataProvider(API_URL);  

 return (  
 <BrowserRouter>  
 ...
 <Refine  
 ...
 dataProvider={dataProvider}  
 >  
 ...
 </BrowserRouter>  
 );  
}  

export default App;

In this example, we're using Refine's jsonServerDataProvider to communicate with the API at <https://api.finefoods.refine.dev.> This dataProvider will handle the HTTP requests we make in our application. Once you've set up your dataProvider, you can use Refine's data hooks (useOne, useList, useUpdate) to manage your data. For example, if you wanted to fetch a list of products from your API and display them in a component, you could do something like this:

import { useList } from "@pankod/refine-core";  

export const ProductsList = () => {  
 const { data, isLoading } = useList({ resource: "products" });

 if (isLoading) {
   return <div>Loading...</div>;
 }

 return (
   <div>
     {data.map(product => (
       <div key={product.id}>
         <h2>{product.title}</h2>
         <p>{product.description}</p>
       </div>
     ))}
   </div>
 );
};

import { useList } from "@pankod/refine-core";  

export const ProductsList = () => {  
 const { data, isLoading } = useList({ resource: "products" });

 if (isLoading) {
   return <div>Loading...</div>;
 }

 return (
   <div>
     {data.map(product => (
       <div key={product.id}>
         <h2>{product.title}</h2>
         <p>{product.description}</p>
       </div>
     ))}
   </div>
 );
};

In this example, we're using the useList hook to fetch a list of products from our API. The resource parameter we pass to useList corresponds to the endpoint in our API that we want to fetch data from. The useList hook returns an object that includes the data we fetched and a boolean indicating whether the data is still loading. For more information on data fetching in Refine, you can refer to the official documentation (https://refine.dev/docs/guides-concepts/data-fetching). Sources: - Building a React Admin Dashboard with Refine (https://refine.dev/blog/building-react-admin-dashboard#adding-the-data-provider) - Data Fetching in Refine (https://refine.dev/docs/guides-concepts/data-fetching) ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

kapa.ai•4mo ago

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kapa.ai•4mo ago

Let me check the knowledge base for you. One moment! :books: ---------------------- I'm sorry, but as an AI developed to assist with the Refine framework, I don't have the ability to provide specific instructions on how to extract data from a specific external website like the Bank of England. However, generally, to extract data from an external website, you would need to use a technique called web scraping. This involves making a request to the website's server, receiving the HTML of the page as a response, and then parsing that HTML to extract the data you need. In JavaScript, there are several libraries that can help with this, such as axios for making HTTP requests and cheerio for parsing HTML. Please note that web scraping should be done in accordance with the website's robots.txt file and terms of service, as not all websites allow their data to be scraped. For the specific task of getting currency exchange rates, I would recommend looking for a public API that provides this data, as this would be more reliable and likely more in line with the terms of service of most financial institutions. If you need to display this data in a Refine app, you would then use a dataProvider, as I described in my previous message. Please consult the documentation or community of the specific library or tool you're using for more specific guidance. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

kapa.ai•4mo ago

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