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Andrés Gómez Vega
Andrés Gómez Vega

Reputation: 23

Extract data from web site using ABAP

I would like to know how it is possible to extract information from a website (http://www.bcentral.cl) using ABAP. Is it possible?

I have little experience in ABAP and I would not know where to start. After obtaining the information I must update ABAP table with those values. Here is the info I need to take out of the website.

Web site

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1462

Answers (1)

Suncatcher
Suncatcher

Reputation: 10621

It doesn't work like this, like you intend to do it. Parsing text from web-page directly in ABAP is possible, but cumbersome and inefficient.

Usually currency rates and other indicators are consumed via web-services/XML, that are provided by financial institutions, and Banco Central de Chile is not an exclusion.

Here is the page where they explain how to use their web-services, and even provides an example (real example, Karl!) how to consume this web-service in your application.

Consuming web-service in ABAP is not as much complicated than in C#. Here is the step-by-step guide:

https://blogs.sap.com/2013/07/29/consuming-webservices-directly-from-abap/

Upvotes: 7

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