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Good afternoon,
Is it possible to update a Glide table automatically through an external website?
Thanks
Example:
I have a field in my Glide Table called
DOLLAR is I want to update the value automatically.

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By using an API, or what do you mean by “automatically”?

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How and where do I place the api within Glide?
Thanks
I have a field in my Glide Table called
DOLLAR is I want to update the value automatically.

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All depends on how you want to do it. I’m a little confused by your second post.

Initially you mentioned “through” an external website, so I assumed you have an external process on an external site that can trigger a Glide API. If thats the case, you can access and update Glide tables via the Glide API.

However, you also mentioned that you want to trigger something internally from within Glide, so on that case I assume you may want to call an external API. In that case, the Call API action may be an option.

There is also integrations with Make if that’s something that’s an option for you.

You may be able to scrape data from a webpage using the webpage source option

https://www.glideapps.com/docs/automation/integrations/browser#get-webpage-source

It’s not really clear what you your goal is. Do you want Glide to reach out to get the value, or is an external process sending data into Glide to update your table.

If the above is not clear, then you need to provide more details. What are you trying to get? Where are you trying to get it from? Can the external site call API’s? Does the external site provide an API for Glide to access? Are you just trying to scrape data off of a website page?

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Yes, I just trying to scrape data of a website page.
Yes, I want to get the dollar value from a website to put it in my table.
I have a value in BRL and I want to know how much it is in dollars daily.

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Yes, the site has the API to use.

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If you have access to the Call API action, then use it to get your value and set the “refresh after” value accordingly.

Else you might want to look into alternative options like Make/Zapier to schedule a run daily, or use JavaScript (only works if you don’t run into CORS problems).

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