How to get the inside text from <abbr> tag?

[Sedoc94]

<abbr class="timestamp">inner text example</abbr>

I would like to make AutoIt search in the website's source for the abbr tag with classname timestamp and return me the innertext of it.

How would I go about doing that, though? :/

Your help is very much appreciated!

Thanks a lot!

Edited July 9, 2012 by Sedoc94

[DicatoroftheUSA]

#include<array.au3>
$sSource='inner text example'
$aResult=StringRegExp($sSource,'(.*)',3)

_arraydisplay($aResult)

Edited July 9, 2012 by DicatoroftheUSA

[Sedoc94]

Hmm, well that won't work because the <abbr> has got some other attributes that are dynamic (changes everytime), so I basically really need to check for the tag with the classname and then return the inner text of it.

Better example below

<abbr class="timestamp" data-utime="1341863797" title="Monday, July 9, 2012 at 9:56pm">inner text example</abbr>

Edited July 9, 2012 by Sedoc94

[jdelaney]

If you have the xml saved as a file, use load...if you have the xml as a string, use loadxml

$oXML=ObjCreate("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
$stest = @DesktopDir & "xml.xml"
$oXML.Load($stest)
ConsoleWrite ( $oXML.xml & @CRLF)
$result = $oXML.selectSingleNode('//abbr')
msgbox ( 4096, "test", $result.text )

[Sedoc94]

No, this is not about a XML file, but about a website source code. HTML5 which contains the abbr tags.

[jdelaney]

html, xml, what's the diff. read in the document body, and it will work...or you can use the _IE* functions

[Sedoc94]

As I'm not good as this, this now confuses me a lot. So it's not that easy for me to transform your example script to make it work.

[DicatoroftheUSA]

Oops, sry, the following should work for you.

#include<array.au3>
$sSource='<abbr class="timestamp" data-utime="1341863797" title="Monday, July 9, 2012 at 9:56pm">inner text example</abbr>'
$aResult=StringRegExp($sSource,'<abbr (?:.*?)>(.*)</abbr>',3)

_arraydisplay($aResult)

Edited July 9, 2012 by DicatoroftheUSA

[Sedoc94]

Alright, I managed to transform your code into:

#include <Inet.au3>

$URL = 'http://www.example.com'
$urlSource = _INetGetSource($URL)
$Match = StringRegExp($urlSource,'<abbr (?:.*?)>(.*)</abbr>',3)

MsgBox(0, "", $Match[0])

But the thing is now that _INetGetSource takes very long to get the source, about 6 seconds long. Isn't there a way to speed up the process of getting the source? Thanks

[DicatoroftheUSA]

Isn't there a way to speed up the process of getting the source?

Get, "fiber to the home"?

[Sedoc94]

Well, it's not my internet. It's just the source code is like thousands of lines long, I guess that's the reason why it take so long.

But it would be nice if the function would stop getting more of the source when it has reached the tag.