Re: Execute Javascript on an HTML file
Re: Execute Javascript on an HTML file
- Subject: Re: Execute Javascript on an HTML file
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:17:54 +0200
Not fully understanding the question: your proposition "tell application Safari etc." looks perfect, what's wrong with it?
Best,
Emmanuel
On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Jim Skibbie wrote:
> I have a workflow where I'm pulling out the HTML source out of an email with:
>
> tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
> set theList to current messages
> set theMsgContent to content of item 1 of theList
> end tell
>
>
> The variable theMsgContent is an HTML file which has some formatted HTML tables in it with data. I would like to execute a chunk of Javascript on that HTML to parse out certain data out of it using something like:
>
> document.getElementsByTagName('td');
>
> Short of writing out the HTML file to disk and then opening it in Safari to perform a:
>
> tell application "Safari"
> set theResult to do JavaScript xyz in tab a
> end tell
>
>
> Is there a way to execute Javascript code on a file without involving the browser? Ideally, I'd like to do this with some resource that comes with a standard installation of OS software since this script will be distributed across multiple workstations and I don't want to have to maintain a certain environment for the script to be able to run.
>
> Thanks.
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