Live Data from Excel Graph to WordPress page

  • maxstjacques

    (@maxstjacques)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    I’m currently trying to create a page on my website (solar.carleton.ca) which displays information from a weather station.Currently, the weather station data is stored on an excel file which gets updated every 5 minutes (adds a new line of values at the bottom of table). The webpage will display the following:

    1) Most recent (current) value for certain columns of the excel sheet (such as temperature and wind direction)
    2) A graph which updates the temperature over the course of the day

    Any help or direction for me to start looking into will be greatly appreciated!Thanks.

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  • keyalea

    (@keyalea)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    That could be a complex project depending on how you want the data displayed. (I’m working on figuring it out too.) Are you wanting something that takes data from something like a CSV file from one site and integrate it into your site – simply with no maps? Or are you wanting a page like this? http://hint.fm/wind/

    That’s a little bit more involved – but quite lovely. (Perhaps a little .json, python, php and some .js libraries?)

    Otherwise, if you’re looking for something like a screen scraper, there are plugins that might do what you’re looking for. I haven’t tried this, but it came up in a search:

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-web-scrapper/

    It’s supposed to take data from one site, and display it in another.

    Let me know what you find.

    Thread Starter maxstjacques

    (@maxstjacques)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the reply!

    Rereading my post, I should of made it clearer. The weather station in question is a personal one on the roof of our building. We currently have the information being printed in an excel file on our server.

    Sorry, I’m new to wordpress and still learning the ropes. I believe the excel file would fall under “CSV file” category, correct? Also, I’m guessing the web scrapper won’t be godo in this situation as it’s a file on my server?

    The map is really nice , however, I’d be looking for something simpler like a linear graph seen in excel.

    Thanks again

    keyalea

    (@keyalea)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    In that case, it looks like there are some plugins that might do what you are looking for. This is just one search type, but definitely look around to see what might work for you.


    http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=csv+import

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