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Posted by Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

How to pull data from BBC?

HI,

How can i pull data from BBC? i need news, Currency Conversion Rates and Markets.

SO it show on my website and i can customise the look.

Would be good if the news would be scrolling as well down strairs in the bullet point style with an image or without.

BTW im gonna make a theme out of it as well.

3 Answers

Dylan Aresu
Dylan Aresu
9,687 Points
Dylan Aresu
Dylan Aresu
9,687 Points

If its a specific piece of information from the bbc i would suggest taking screenshots of the information you require (print screen on a windows and cmd+ shift+ 3/4 on a mac), creating a folder in your workspace called img, adding the screenshots into your workspace img folder and then tagging them in your html with <img src="img/imgname.png" class="imgname"> and then style it in the css with the .imgname selector, if your looking to livestreem certain things from the bbc then i am unsure on this, however there may be someone else on here who can help. Hope this helps :)

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Im looking to have a live data of the 'currency conversion rates bbc rss feeds' : p

Dylan Aresu
Dylan Aresu
9,687 Points
Dylan Aresu
Dylan Aresu
9,687 Points

i do not know as of currently but if i find out i will make sure to reply, i had a look with the inspector dev tool but i couldn't find anything, anyway good luck :)

Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points
Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points

You would need to connect with their API if they have one and pull the data using AJAX.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I used RSS i think thats the name? for news feed, but then i need market etc.. : p how owuld i do it with AJAX?

Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points

I would check out the Ajax Basics course first to get familiar with AJAX :)

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I dont even know JS well enough :d well, thank you.