Pulling data from a website to ESP8266?

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Okay, I’m sure this is a novice question that is covered somewhere else, so forgive a poor programming noob.

I am attempting to make a device which points at the ISS wherever it is by collecting the current coordinates from http://www.isstracker.com/ automatically and constantly and plugging them into an equation to turn those coordinates into degrees.

The information on here seems to be mostly oriented towards manual control of a device or taking info from the device, rather than from the web. Is this kind of internet data retrieval something thinger can do, and if so, how?

Followup question: ideally, I would like to get my own coordinates also. The device will be connected to the internet via an iphone 3g/wifi hotspot, and getting the coords of the phone. Can this also be done?

Thanks

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Hy Ryan! this is a nice project, so we will try to help you all as its possible.

There is no a Thinger.io funcionality that collect data directly from web to device but, you can use “Space channel” from IFTTT to make a recipe with this data and send it to Thinger.io server with a “Maker channel”. You can see a tutorial here: https://community.thinger.io/t/make-your-iot-things-react-to-hundred-of-ifttt-events/41

Other way could be download all HTML text from isstracker.com and parse it to extract the location, but it will be much difficult.

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Has anyone retired to pull historical data from “data bucket”?

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Hi @Shivang_Patel, what do you mean with pulling data from bucket? from the device itself?