Web Scraping with Oracle Analytics
OCI Functions integration with data flows is one of my favourite Oracle Analytics features as it provides to business analytists full control and flexibility over specific data processing needs. This article illustrates how the feature can be used to implement a web scraper, which allows us to extract data from a website and save the result in a new dataset. Please note that I already wrote about creating OCI functions and invoking them from data flows in Oracle Analytics, so I’m not going to cover all the details again. ...