How do I import data into Excel on a Mac?

How do I import data from a website into Excel?

Hi,
I am interested in creating a tool to import data from a website. I have searched for this and found a few resources but they are really complicated. Can someone suggest any simple ways to import data from a website into Excel?
Here are the requirements: The site must have a table of data. Import should be real time, so the next time the user opens the file, it should already have the latest data. Thanks. This can be accomplished with the following script. I've added the ability to search the entire web and filter out what is not included.

Import sys. Import webbrowser. Import requests. Url = input('Enter URL to scrape: '). # Check for "Table" or "List" (or similar). If re.get(url) # If there is no error, save the data. if res.statuscode == 200: data = res.text else: # Otherwise print the error. print("Failed to get data.") sys.exit() # If no table was found. Elif re.get(url) if res.text print("Failed to get data.") sys.exit() # Otherwise make request for all pages. # Make request. res = requests.get(url)

How do I export data from a website to Excel on a Mac?

I'm a programmer, and use Excel for writing program in my day to day work. I like to do data analysis in Excel sometimes, and there's a lot of data that I'd like to keep track of. Often when I'm on the road, it's helpful to have access to this data, so I'd like to be able to transfer some data from a website or something similar to Excel.

Ideally, I'd like something that would allow me to import some of this data into a spreadsheet and then update it. I haven't done much research on this, so any help would be appreciated! In terms of using tools, you can use either wget or curl to download the page. Then you can pipe the contents into a spreadsheet like LibreOffice Calc.

Wget, curl, and their variants are available on Linux, OSX, and Windows. For Linux, I believe you need the latest version of curl which is 7.23. If you don't have curl installed, here is the location where I would get the latest version of wget (just type wget or curl into a shell prompt).

And then it would be piped directly into a spreadsheet like LibreOffice Calc. A more direct method would be to use Safari 5. Type the URL of the webpage in the field provided and then select the page you want to save. You can view the list of bookmarks by pressing the down arrow.

Note: The above screenshot was taken from a Mac running Snow Leopard. The process may be different in Lion.