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iOS

iOS fetching data from a data base

Hey, I have a question that I have been trying to solve.But I can't solve it alright what I want to do is I am is fetch data from a district grades website(home Access Center Cfisd) I want to use this in both iOS & Android if some one can please help me solve this.

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Does this website have an API? Can you request the data in a particular format i.e. XML or JSON?

Have you taken any of the iOS or Android courses?

2 Answers

No, the website does't have an (API).But how would I make one I would like to display the grades in a (UITableView)

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Unless this is your own website where you can make the API yourself you will have to screen scrap.

It's an old tutorial but still should be useful

http://www.raywenderlich.com/14172/how-to-parse-html-on-ios

You could also use YQL to get the data:

https://developer.yahoo.com/yql

No,the website is not my's is the schools distric. I just want to parse the grades into a UITableView cell.But I think that parsing the HTML would work I'm gonna try that. Thanks for all your help and time!

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

iOS 8 By Tutorials from Ray Wenderlich might also be useful http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-8-by-tutorials

Chapter 25 - Intermediate WebKit

It grabs a list of Authors from the Website and displays it in a TableView