Blockspring - coding via spreadsheet

[groneg]

My bad if posted somewhere already. Tool allows you to access APIs via spreadsheets. Nice for faux coders like me

https://www.blockspring.com/

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[WorldImpulse]

You can even use google spread sheet to check if your site/s are up or down, check it out here: Use Google Docs to Monitor Your Website's Uptime

 

[qqbot]

This looks pretty cool.

 

[keeper33]

Shame they don't have anything in the documentation about how this behaves at scale. I'm worried that each cell formula will be treated as a separate query and if the spreadsheet is large enough, that'd be a huge performance hit.

 

[BassHead]

Shame they don't have anything in the documentation about how this behaves at scale. I'm worried that each cell formula will be treated as a separate query and if the spreadsheet is large enough, that'd be a huge performance hit.

Something tells me you're spot on. It'd be hard to optimize this sort of thing for large scale.

 

[keeper33]

Something tells me you're spot on. It'd be hard to optimize this sort of thing for large scale.

I'm guessing their business model revolves around small to mid-size enterprise. A larger firm would probably have a guy in the IT department write up a scrape job that runs on a daily basis and throws the results into a SQL database (assuming the data doesn't change that frequently or isn't that business critical).