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Can Alteryx do webscraping for this website?

Gualigee
8 - Asteroid
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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@Gualigee 
What is the output should look like?

We can use Download tool to download the data, but there will be some parsing in place.

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messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@Gualigee,

 

I don't know the structure of the data however below is a good start :

 

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Attached the workflow,

Regards,

Gualigee
8 - Asteroid

hi @Qiu , i am gonna grab the 18 weather variables for a predictive model. 

TerraClimate | Planetary Computer (microsoft.com)

Gualigee
8 - Asteroid

hi @messi007  , i am gonna grab the 18 weather variables for a predictive model. 

TerraClimate | Planetary Computer (microsoft.com)

messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@Gualigee,

 

I updated the workflow, I let you select the columns that you are looking for.

 

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Regards,

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Gualigee
8 - Asteroid

Thank you @messi007 

I just chose one variable and I am not sure I am in the right direction. 

Gualigee
8 - Asteroid

Hi @messi007 @Qiu, I found the source from another website. I did not work out the API thing.  

Do you know how to open .nc files. ?

UofI TERRA CLIMATE's Webpage (northwestknowledge.net)

Thank you very much. 

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