What's the function for reading off webpage

[molotofc]

I know the _IEBodyReadHTML/Text but they are not what I want, as both of those read off from the webpage source.

What's the function to read off the webpage itself only, not source?

Regards,

[Danp2]

You will have to provide more details before a more specific answer can be given, but there are lots of _IE functions for interacting with the web page.

[molotofc]

Basically, 'If string abc123 is found then' is what I'm doing at the moment.

The code:

$text = _IEBodyReadText($oIE)

If StringInStr($text, "abc123") Then

but _IEBodyReadText searches in the webpage source which isn't what I want, I need one where it searches on what's displayed on the webpage, not source.

[Gianni]

Basically, 'If string abc123 is found then' is what I'm doing at the moment.

The code:

$text = _IEBodyReadText($oIE)

If StringInStr($text, "abc123") Then

but _IEBodyReadText searches in the webpage source which isn't what I want, I need one where it searches on what's displayed on the webpage, not source.

 

Hi molotofc

the _IEBodyReadText() retrieves the whole text content of the web page, >here is an example of finding text in it

or maybe you want get the text contained within some form fields?

[kylomas]

molotofc,

There is no single function to read what a WEB page displays on your screen.  Getting data requires some familiarity with the WEB site.  There is no generic approach to this short of emulating the browsers rendering engine.  See post #21 of the link that PincoPanco pointed you to.  JCHD cites one of the techniques used to defeat WEB scraping.

What you can do is examine the site that you are interested in and use the IE* functions to retrieve the data.

All that being said, you can get all TEXT from a WEB site using regexp.  You can find several examples using Google.  Just beware of the limitations. 

kylomas