Problem with put URL and websites

[Jim Ault]

Quick answer without knowing details is that the web page you are visiting
has been reformatted or you are being directed to another page, which has a
different format.

One easy solution is

put url "http://mapquesturl" into page
set the itemdel to tab
replace ">" with tab in page
replace "<" with tab in page
put itemOffset(" Total Estimated Time", page) into pos
put word 1 of item (pos+5) of page into estmVal

Of course, you would need to find the correct number (I have used 5 in this
case).  It looks like the page code is creating a header, then the values
will follow in another section.  Very common with newer web hosting
technology.

Hope this helps

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



On 4/15/08 8:23 AM, "Fred moyer" <fmoyer at aol.com> wrote:

> Until about a month ago, I have been using Revolution to find the
> drive times between two cities. I would use "put url" along with a
> line of data which included the two zip codes to get data from
> Mapquest. From all of the gibberish retrieved, my script would look
> for the words "Total Estimated Time:" and know that following that
> would be the drive time.
> 
> Suddenly, the data that is retrieved is unusable. A typical example:
> 
> div class="narrTotalTop" id="dirTimeSumm" >
> Total Estimated Time: <span class="timeSpan" id="dirTimeSummary"></span>
> </div>
> <div class="narrTotalTop" id="dirDistSumm"  >
> Total Estimated Distance: <span id="dirDistanceSummary"></span>
> 
> 
> What has changed? Revolution? Mapquest? My Safari program? Any
> solutions? I know almost nothing about web sites.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Fred Moyer
> 
> 
> 
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