You want to use an API to retrieve data and process it with SAS. How do you do it? PROC HTTP offers the features of the cURL command within your SAS code.
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How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS
If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.
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Webpage scraping made easy with PROC HTTP
SAS Press author Matt Windham shows you how to use the SAS procedure PROC HTTP to grab raw data from a website.
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Using SAS to access and update files on Microsoft OneDrive
Learn how to use SAS code (PROC HTTP) to read and write files from your Microsoft OneDrive. You’ll learn how to create a Microsoft Office 365 app, connect to it with SAS, and automate the integration with your office productivity environment.
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The Internet of Snacks: SnackBot data and what it reveals about SAS life
At SAS, we love data. Data is central to our corporate vision: to transform a world of data into a world of intelligence. We’re also famous for enjoying M&Ms, but to us they are more than a sweet snack. They’re also another source of data. My colleague Pete Privitera, with […]
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How to test PROC HTTP and the JSON library engine
Using SAS with REST APIs is fun and rewarding, but it’s also complicated. When you’re dealing with web services, credentials, data parsing and security, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. It’s useful to have a simple program that verifies that the “basic plumbing” is working before […]
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How to secure your REST API credentials in SAS programs
I’ve used SAS with a bunch of different REST APIs: GitHub, Brightcove, Google Analytics, Lithium, LinkedIn, and more. For most of these I have to send user/password or “secret” application tokens to the web service so that it knows who I am and what data I can retrieve. I do […]
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How to scrape data from a web page using SAS
The internet is rich with data, and much of that data seems to exist only on web pages, which — for some crazy reason — are designed for humans to read. When students/researchers want to apply data science techniques to analyze collect and analyze that data, they often turn to […]
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