How to recover text from a web page

[stephen barncard]

Why bother with revBrowser at all?  Just  do this in the message box:

put URL(http://website.com/page.html)

 and this will put the website html into the message box output. Obviously
you could do this with fields.

Check out Jerry's videos on Screen Scraping:

http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-1
http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-0


On 21 September 2010 22:16, Sumner, Walt <WSUMNER at dom.wustl.edu> wrote:

> I am trying to recover text from this web page and all of its siblings:
>
>
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available/#sigs/691732733/user/1
>
> The interesting part of the page is the comments, which do not appear in
> the HTML, but which can be copied manually. I can open this page in a
> browser in LiveCode. With manual mouse motions, I can double click a block
> of text, choose "Select All" from the "Edit" menu, choose "Copy" from the
> "Edit" menu, and then paste into a field where the comments all appear and
> are easy to disassemble.
>
> Unfortunately, the revbrowser set command and get function do not do
> anything comparable AFAICT. The "Select All" choice is not implemented in
> the DoMenu command. I think that printing a pdf is also out. So, any
> thoughts on how to automate this part of a petition review? For instance,
> maybe there is a simple way to save the text to a file with the
> revBrowserExecuteScript function (using JavaScript for Safari)?
>
> BTW, the browser is fully capable of crashing LiveCode on at least some OSX
> machines. Please don't lose any work for me.
>
> Thanks,
>
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