Tutorial - MacAddict Forum Reader on RevJournal Website - Webpage Won't Open
Mark Srebnik
msrebnik at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 30 22:31:30 EDT 2008
> Thanks so much for your help with this and your tutorial, Sarah!
>
> Meanwhile, didn't realize that tutorial is only written for MacAddict forum.
> I was trying to use another forum's web address that I visit often.
>
> So, would be great as long as you're updating tutorial to add some comments
> regarding getting this to work with other forums if that's not too much
> trouble.
Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> Tue Sep 30 19:35:05 CDT 2008
wrote:
>>Here is my basic method:
>>- in your browser, load the page listing the forum categories and forum names.
>>- look at the source for this page and work out a method of
>>identifying the category & forum names, most likely a class name or
>>id.
>>- use my script for loading the page into memory, but edit the
>>processWebPage script to use the identifiers you found, the same way
>>my script for the MacAddict page used "cattitle" and "forumlink"
>>I can't really give specific instructions because each web page is
>>structured differently. You just have to look at the raw source and
>>script accordingly.
>>HTH,
>>Sarah
Thanks again for your help, Sarah!
Think I get the basic concept....however, whether or not I can get it to
work in Rev..... ;-)
Thanks,
Mark
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