use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #543 - 14 msgs

[Dave Calkins]

>
> Subject: Help with web page download
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> The following script has worked on about 80% of web sites to download
> pages. However some sites require me to post info or wants to set
> cookies, or to be a big browser,etc. which goes beyond my scripting
> abilities. Any help would be appreciated.   Bruce Wilson
>
> on mouseup
>    put word 1 of fld "symbol" into sym     --Stock symbol
>    put char 1 of sym into b
>    put "http://user:psswrd@biz.yahoo.com/n/"&b&"/"&sym&".html" into myurl
>    put url myurl into dataVar
>    put HTMLtoTXT (dataVar) into dataVar     --HTMLtoTXT is external Func.
>    put cleanUpTXT (dataVar) into fld "data" --clean up & put into fld
> end mouseup

I would like to see your HTMLtoTXT and cleanUpTXT functions. Would you care to
share them? I am ignorant about the cookie and browser maintenance though.
Sorry,

Dave Calkins