Is There a Way to Extract Specific Elements From an HTML Web Page

[leegold]

Hi,

Using FF.au3. I want to extract from a web page all HTML elements with the general form of

<p class="row"...>,,,</p> there are many elements like this on the page and I want to get them all.

I was thinking to use _FFXPath but the page is not Well Formed  XHTML/XML. I also see FFReadHTML but as AFAIK it only copies all children of html or body tags(?)

I could use FFReadHTML and then use regex to get all the elements I want. But is there an easier way?

Thanks,

Lee G.

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[Kidney]

i have always used the FFReadHTML and then used StringInStr along with StringMid

allows you to pull everything between <p class="row"...> and </p> and then store it in an array.

the thing that takes the longest is the FFReadHTML

 

i would also suggest writing the HTML to a text file for debugging reasons. once u get the script working 100%, cut out that part of the code.

[allSystemsGo]

Can you provide the URL so that others can take a look at it?

[Morthawt]

I don't know about anything to do with any third party UDF's you may be using but when I need to extract elements from web pages I break the page down gradually into chunks using _StringBetween() to get to the information I need from the web page. An example of how I do this is here: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

I don't know if that is of any use to you but I thought I would share that just in case.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Morthawt

[leegold]

Thanks for the help!