How to download in a script USED BY info on the database?

[ivanher]

i would like to download in an script this items, is there a standard field in the api that i could use to download the info from FIELDS USED BY?

Thanks

[Floyd_Alvares2]

@ivanher 

From memory, I don't think there is an API that allows you to fetch the USED BY for fields.

There is a manual option to do it via the UI - but I assume that is not what you want.

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

Like Floyd says, there’s no (REST) API to fetch these dependent assets.

Are you trying to fetch them for all fields, or just for the currently highlighted field?

[ivanher]

Thank you! well the goal was to download it that way, so i guess i got my answer, thank you!

[Thorsten]

I was looking at a similar problem just the other day. I put together a script I can run in the F12 console that will give you that page's Used-By, incl. text and link (I manually copy&paste those into a speadsheet to send to users to go and remove dependencies afterwards).

You might have to play a bit with the parameters/filters I used to make it work for your case, and replace the URL with your Marketo location.

// Scrape "Used-By" from Marketo Fields Management
let urls = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (let i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) {
  if (urls[i].getAttribute("href") != "#" && typeof urls[i].getAttribute("href") == "string") {
    if (urls[i].getAttribute("href").length > 5 && urls[i].innerText != "None" && urls[i].innerText != "Change Type In Progress") {
      console.log(urls[i].innerText + "," + "https://app-xxx.marketo.com/?meue&meueDataOnlyMode" + urls[i].getAttribute("href"));
    }
  }
}

See if that helps a bit.

[ivanher]

Hello, thanks for this i will use it, i really appreciate it!

[SanfordWhiteman]

Unfortunately, this won’t find all the Used By entries because Marketo has an “overflow” feature after which the fields are not shown but there’s a link to an XLS. IMO that should actually be the goal — to launch the XLS downloader for all fields.

P.S. Also, this is tighter (but has the same limitation of only getting the non-overflow entries):

var truncatedFieldList = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".mktListField a"))
  .filter( el => el.href != "#" && el.textContent.trim() )
  .map( el => el.textContent.trim() + "," + el.href );

console.log(truncatedFieldList.join("\n"));

[ivanher]

Will do Sir!

thanks