How to read text within the paragraph tag in html

[HowieJ]

Hi, I am very new to AutoIT

I am trying to grab text from website and copy to a text file

Originally I used $sText = _IEBodyReadText($oIE), however this will grab everything and it's hard to read it.

If I only want to grab text within the paragraph tag, how do I achieve this ?

example :

<p>Grab this text</p>

Thx for all the help.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

just read the file and then use _StringBetween.

Mega

[HowieJ]

Hi,

just read the file and then use _StringBetween.

Mega

Thank you for the quick reply.

Is there anyway that I can shorten the step. Currently I am grabbing all text from the website and copy to the text file->using _StringBetween and extract text from <p></p>.

Is there anyway that I can just directly grabbing text within <p></p> from website ?

Thx for any help.

[Xenobiologist]

HI,

try using Function _INetGetSource

Mega

Edited June 7, 2010 by Xenobiologist

[BurakSZ]

Example:

#include <INet.au3> ; needed for get source (hmtl)
#include <String.au3> ; needed for stringbetween
$source = _INetGetSource("http://de.yahoo.com/") ;get html
FileWrite(@ScriptDir & "\yahoo.html",$source); save file
$read = FileRead(@ScriptDir & "\yahoo.html") ;read file
$readtitle = _StringBetween($read, "<title>","</title>") ;read title from file
MsgBox(0,"",$readtitle[0]) ;display first found string

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

you do not need the file.

#include <INet.au3> ; needed for get source (hmtl)
#include <String.au3> ; needed for stringbetween
$readtitle = _StringBetween(_INetGetSource("http://de.yahoo.com/"), "<title>", "</title>") 
MsgBox(0, "", $readtitle[0]) ;display first found string

Mega

[DaleHohm]

Another approach:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate(your-url)
$oPs = _IETagnameGetCollection($oIE, "p")
For $oP in $oPs
    ColsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oP, "innertext" & @CRLF & "----------------" & @CRLF)
Next

Dale

[HowieJ]

Hi,

you do not need the file.

#include <INet.au3> ; needed for get source (hmtl)
#include <String.au3> ; needed for stringbetween
$readtitle = _StringBetween(_INetGetSource("http://de.yahoo.com/"), "<title>", "</title>") 
MsgBox(0, "", $readtitle[0]) ;display first found string

Mega

Hi, thank you for the reply.

<p style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 450px; {bgcolor}">

<strong>Title</strong><br />

Content

</p>

How do I grab the tile and content and save that into file ? I had the following code, however it does not quite doing as I want.

$file = FileOpen(@ScriptDir & "\test.txt", 2)

$readtitle = _StringBetween(_INetGetSource("http://www.abc.com"), "<strong>", "</strong>")

FileWriteLine($file,$readtitle[0])

$readcontent = _StringBetween(_INetGetSource("http://www.abc.com"), "</strong><br />", "</p>")

FileWriteLine($file,$readcontent[0])

FileClose($file)

Please advise. Thanks for all the help.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

what site is it? It is much easier to give you the correct code, if I knew the site.

Mega