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How to get the Description of a website ?


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How can via AutoIt get the Description of a link ? I know how to retrieve the Title of a website, but I can't find in any way how to retrieve the Description data :(

Could I accomplish this via the _FF.au3 UDF for Firefox ? Could I accoumplish this via any _IE UDF from the Help File ?

Pls help me

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Description? Can you give an example please.

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Updated: 22/04/2018

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Here is the IE way

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate("https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/", 0, 0, 0)
Do
  $html = _IEDocReadHTML($oIE)
Until StringInStr($html, "description")
$oIE.Stop()
$oTags = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "meta")
For $oTag in $oTags
   If $oTag.name = "description" Then Msgbox(0,"", $oTag.content )
Next
$oIE.Quit()

Else can you give us an example of link causing trouble ?

Posted (edited)
  On 9/28/2014 at 8:51 AM, mikell said:

Here is the IE way

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate("https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/", 0, 0, 0)
Do
  $html = _IEDocReadHTML($oIE)
Until StringInStr($html, "description")
$oIE.Stop()
$oTags = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "meta")
For $oTag in $oTags
   If $oTag.name = "description" Then Msgbox(0,"", $oTag.content )
Next
$oIE.Quit()

Else can you give us an example of link causing trouble ?

It was a Facebook link, like the link of someones profile, but I observed that its something strange with facebook links, the description appears translated in my foreign country language in the HTML source no matter what, even in the browsers, but when I view the page, the Description appears  displayed on the page in english lol ( when Im not logged into Facebook ). But for other websites I discovered it works Unicode

EDIT :

Ok this problem WAS ONLY with the first method :) The method with _IE works flawlessly even with Facebook or anything :) ! :sorcerer:

Thankyou a million times dude ! And to the others who still tried to help me :)

I will mark the above resolvation as the best one :)

Thanks !

Edited by Rickname

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