Using LabVIEW To Do Totally Legal Things Online by Eric Stach. GDevCon N.A. 2024

Suitable for all. Have simple web tasks you'd like to automate? Does your instrument lack an API, but have a web based interface? Well, LabVIEW can help with that! Inspired by an NI Forums post about automating online banking actions and the need to create an API for an instrument over the web, see how you can use the NI Advanced HTTPS toolkit to interact with websites through LabVIEW. No web development experience required. In this presentation, I'll spend a few minutes introducing my specific use case, which was writing a LabVIEW API for instrumentation that lacked a vendor provided API. I'll then spend the majority of the time talking about what it means to Get and Post HTML data, how to use the NI Advanced HTTPS toolkit to accomplish this, and how you can use a 3rd party tool to identify the necessary HTML and Java code if, like me, you have no idea where to start interpreting that code. We'll also talk about strategies to manage this data safely. Everything we'll do is totally, 100% legal. Video production by Confreaks. Learn more at https://www.confreaks.com/ Transcript