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I realized :)
I have another question. I tried using the API to get data to an EXCEL table. But I did not succeed, although I saw examples that some people once succeeded. Do you think this is possible?
Previously, my laptop also had a local server installed (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc.). Then I installed Joomla, a template, and so I made my own trivial sites. Do you think I have a chance to learn how to work with the API? I'm interested in this because you can collect a lot of interesting information from the blockchain and share it in the form of a finished publication.
It'll certainly be possible to use the API to export data into an Excel table - Creating a CSV file is probably one of the easiest ways to do this although an alternative is to output an HTML < Table > then copy and paste it into Excel.
I've found steemchiller's API easy to work with - just 2 lines of code to get me started...
...and then it's a case of working with key / value pairs and arrays to manipulate the data.
You could even use it to output the entire post contents which is something that I used to do and add a custom introduction to. Although this wasn't using the API, my intention at the time was to automate it which I would be able to do now with my acquired knowledge (apart from the posting it bit which I haven't learnt yet).