How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Mon Jul 24 09:37:05 EDT 2017


Mike, Mike, hh,

So many good ideas!  Thanks guys!

~Roger


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:23 AM, hh via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> > Roger E. wrote:
> > Is there a browser widget command that will do it?
>
> (Yet another option):
>
> YES.
>
> Set the URL of a browser widget to https://www.coinbase.com/charts
> and get (via a timer) the htmltext of the browser widget. This is the
> _generated_ source.
>
> You can now search and find the needed offsets of the tags.
> OR
> Get the needed class-elements via javascript (more lengthy).
>
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