Question with TCP

[KurogamineNox]

[issue: Unsolved]

Id like to know how to use TCP to grab the HTML source from a website. Could someone help me out with this? If Possible.

Edited October 16, 2010 by KurogamineNox

[water]

Why do you want to use TCP?

Couldn't you use the IE UDF and function _IEBodyReadHTML or _IEDocReadHTML?

Edited October 16, 2010 by water

[trancexx]

...ahh, he edited.

Edited October 16, 2010 by trancexx

[water]

...ahh, he edited.

I like that emoticon.

That describes how I feel (sometimes)

[trancexx]

Anyway, KurogamineNox should just search the forums before asking others to do that for him.

[KurogamineNox]

TCP because I dont want to acually load the site in a browser.

[water]

If you use the IE UDF you won't even see the browser.

Example:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("www.autoitscript.com",0,0)
$sHTML = _IEDocReadHTML ($oIE)
_IEQuit ($oIE)
MsgBox(0, "Document Source", $sHTML)

[KurogamineNox]

If you use the IE UDF you won't even see the browser.

Example:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("www.autoitscript.com",0,0)
$sHTML = _IEDocReadHTML ($oIE)
_IEQuit ($oIE)
MsgBox(0, "Document Source", $sHTML)

I just think TCP would load the html source in a more efficient way, but I am not sure with most of these things.

[trancexx]

If you use the IE UDF you won't even see the browser.

Example:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("www.autoitscript.com",0,0)
$sHTML = _IEDocReadHTML ($oIE)
_IEQuit ($oIE)
MsgBox(0, "Document Source", $sHTML)

Nevertheless, another process is started. This is why I don't like _IE...

When something can be done within your (process's) memory space, another process shouldn't be started unless absolutely needed, or when profits are bigger than losses.

[trancexx]

I just think TCP would load the html source in a more efficient way, but I am not sure with most of these things.

Just read about InetRead funtion, or search TCP port 80, or find WinHttp.au3, or thousand other things.

[KurogamineNox]

Anyway, KurogamineNox should just search the forums before asking others to do that for him.

Btw, I really havnt asked anyone to do it for me. I just asked if someone could teach me how to use TCP. Maybe send me to another page that already has something I need since I am a complete novice at TCP functions and its just confusing me in the help file.

[KurogamineNox]

Just read about InetRead funtion, or search TCP port 80, or find WinHttp.au3, or thousand other things.

hm...Ill see what I can come up with.

[KurogamineNox]

I added the INetRead to my coding

$oIE = INetRead("http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html")
            $text = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
            $aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
            $ranking = $aRanking[0]
            GuiCtrlSetData($label, $ranking)

problem is I think im using it wrong.

[water]

$text = INetRead("http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html")
$aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
$ranking = $aRanking[0]
GuiCtrlSetData($label, $ranking)

Edited October 16, 2010 by water

[KurogamineNox]

$text = INetRead("http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html")
$aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
$ranking = $aRanking[0]
GuiCtrlSetData($label, $ranking)

Error, id think I need to have it wait till its done downloading, Or its not able to access the stuff from the page. Since you have to be logged in to get your Rank but I think it go off of your internet explorer logins so I logged in there but nothing. Maybe ill have to make a topic on exactly what I need but then that make me lazy and not try things myself(which im trying things myself rightnow.)

[water]

But you should get results for the specified page (no login required for that).

I modified the script to display the error and extended code. What do you get?

$text = INetRead("http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html")
msgbox(0,"","error: " & @error & @CRLF & "extended: " & @extended)
$aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
$ranking = $aRanking[0]
GuiCtrlSetData($label, $ranking)

What do you get?

Edited October 16, 2010 by water

[KurogamineNox]

But you should get results for the specified page (no login required for that).

I modified the script to display the error and extended code. What do you get?

$text = INetRead("http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html")
msgbox(0,"","error: " & @error & @CRLF & "extended: " & @extended)
$aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
$ranking = $aRanking[0]
GuiCtrlSetData($label, $ranking)

What do you get?

$ranking = $aRanking[0]

$ranking = $aRanking^ ERROR

the $ranking errors. This happened before when it tried to read the page when it wasnt fully loaded(from my other experiments.)

[water]

$ranking = $aRanking[0]

$ranking = $aRanking^ ERROR

the $ranking errors. This happened before when it tried to read the page when it wasnt fully loaded(from my other experiments.)

That shows that the array is empty.

But what does the msgbox command display?

[KurogamineNox]

error: 0

extended: 13474

Edit: Also login was required in order to acually view your own rank. I am trying to adapt it to another coding of mine that someone helped fix for me.

#include <IE.au3>
#include <String.au3>

$oIE = _IEAttach("Rankings")
$text = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
$aRanking = StringRegExp($text, "(?:<SPAN id=myrank>)(\d*)(?:</SPAN>)", 1)
$ranking = $aRanking[0]
ConsoleWrite($ranking & @CRLF)

Exit

Since I am making a Tracking thing to check for changes in the page(but you can only see changes if you where logged in though.) This code works however it only works after checking teh website. I need mine to able to check the website without having to go to it but logged in at least. So I thought TCP would be just fine.

Edited October 16, 2010 by KurogamineNox

[water]

That's fine. It means: The function ran successfully and returned 13474 bytes of data.

In this case your regexp must be wrong