Source page
The Source page is the normal starting page when working with the HXL Proxy's interactive interface. The HXL Proxy can read from any publicly-accessible online data source. It understands several File formats.
The HXL Proxy home page allows you to enter a URL directly (e.g. for CSV data from an API), or to choose from HDX, Google Drive, or Dropbox using an interactive browser.
If you select a dataset that does not yet contain HXL hashtags, the HXL Proxy will redirect you to the Tagger page; otherwise, it will take you directly to the Recipe page.
See Special URL handling for information about special support for URLs from HDX, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
- Tab # — the tab number (1 or higher). Applies only if the source is an Excel workbook.
- Selector — an optional JSONPath expression to locate the tabular/HXL data in a JSON dataset.
- Verify SSL certs — if unchecked, skip verification of SSL certificates. This is useful for working with data on servers with self-signed certificates. Checked by default.
Advanced software developers may choose to use the API instead of defining transformations via forms.