URL's

[Dave Cragg]

On 9 Jun 2006, at 00:41, Robert Presender wrote:

> Using OS 10.3.9
> This is my first venture with URL and I will appreciate a bit of help.
>
> I have gotten this far:
>
>  Ask "Enter the stock or fund symbol"
>     put it into hold
>     get "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s="
>     put hold after last char of it
>     revGoUrl it
>
> The above brings up the web page but I can't figure out how
> to get some of the numerical data (such as the price associated
> with the symbol) from the web page.  I would like to get bits of  
> information
> and put them into a field(s) of a stack card.

revGoUrl will just open the page in your browser. Instead, you want  
to get the the actual content of the url. To start, try something  
like this:


    ask "Enter the stock or fund symbol"
     put it into hold
     get "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s="
     put hold after last char of it
     put url it into urlData

But then the hard part begins. You'll have to parse the data  
contained in urlData, which I assume will be in html format. The  
first thing I would do would be to put urlData into a field, and see  
what the data looks like.  Then you should be able to see how it  
might be parsed.

Cheers
Dave