URI Functions

These spreadsheet functions are used for inserting data from Universal Resource Identifiers (URI).

WEBSERVICE

Get some web content from a URI.

WEBSERVICE(URI)

URI: URI text of the web service.

=WEBSERVICE("wiki.documentfoundation.org/api.php?hidebots=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=rss")

Returns the web page content of "https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/api.php?hidebots=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=rss".

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FILTERXML

Apply a XPath expression to a XML document.

FILTERXML(XML Document; XPath expression)

XML Document (required): String containing a valid XML stream.

XPath expression (required): String containing a valid XPath expression.

=FILTERXML(WEBSERVICE("wiki.documentfoundation.org/api.php?hidebots=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=rss");"//lastBuildDate")

Returns information on the last build date of the wiki.

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ENCODEURL

Returns a URL-encoded string.

Use this function to transform text with symbols of national alphabets (for example accented characters, non-ASCII alphabets or Asian words) to a string of URL-standard symbols.

ENCODEURL(Text)

Text: String to encode to a sequence of URL-standard symbols.

If cell A1 contains the Cyrillic text "автомобиль", =ENCODEURL(A1) returns %D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C (the word "автомобиль" means car in Russian).

If cell B1 contains the text "車", =ENCODEURL(B1) returns %E8%BB%8A ("車" means car in Japanese).

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