Re: How to read web-based HTML data into a variable without a browser
Re: How to read web-based HTML data into a variable without a browser
- Subject: Re: How to read web-based HTML data into a variable without a browser
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:58:49 EDT
URL Access Scripting, available on 9.x and 10.1.x (who cares if it's
available for 10.0.x? No sane person scripts those OSX versions).
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
In a message dated 4/19/02 5:21:03 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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Can anyone tell me how I can read the html text from a web-site into an
Applescript
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variable without using or launching a web-browser?
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I've been looking through the Standard Scription Additions.osax dictionary,
and
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it looks like it _might_ be possible with one of the commands from the
"Internet
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suite" section, however I'm unsure of the syntax. "Open location" isn't
what I'm
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after, because that launches a web-browser, so would URL, Internet address,
or
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web-page be of use?
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I'd like to pull in the text data from
http://homepage.mac.com/gouldtv/xml.htm
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