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JA50
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Dropbox excel sheet update from web

I have an excel sheet that pulls football scores from the web. The info only updates new scores if I open the excel sheet from the original computer I made sheet on. I want to be able to open my drop...
  • atccodex's avatar
    atccodex
    7 years ago

    The file is static when it is on dropbox. Excel only queries when it is actually open, so sitting in dropbox isn't the right solution.

    Excel won't auto update on its own, so you would almost need to write a web scraping script that updates the file locally on a schedule, then dropbox would sync the local file to the web, and then you can view it anywhere.

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