Getting text from tricky webpage

[jimg]

I'm trying to capture text from a certain area on a webpage.  I could parse the entire page if necessary.

Problem is that AutoItWindowinfo spy can't see anything on the page besides the windows title.  If I try WinGetText different browsers yield different info.

With Chrome, all I get is "Chrome Legacy Window"

With Edge, I get is "Microsoft Edge" and Edge is able to Read Aloud the data, so I'm not sure what the means.

With IE, I get a little more, including the Title, the Address, and the title of the tab.

If I try to use any of the Developer Tools, the actual data isn't on the page.  The actual webpage is a "live" display of some information contained on my Mikrotik router.  I'm trying to recognize changes in the display, and store those changes,

If there's a character recognition tool, working with bitmaps would be painful, but possible?

Edited October 13, 2020 by jimg

[Danp2]

Have you tried using the built-in _IE* commands to retrieve the desired text? This will only work with IE of course. For other browsers, your options are either UIAutomation or Webdriver.

[jimg]

_IEBodyReadText yields "0".

AutoIt is about my paygrade so using UIAutomation or Webdriver looks unlikely, unless the many returns when I google them are all not the ones I'm looking for.  It would be easier to take a screen shot every few minutes and manually scan them for changes 🙂

[jimg]

It turns out I can select the text by either Ctrl-A'ing the window or dragging the mouse across the area.  I think I can work with that (note "I think").

[Danp2]

Did you check the site for frames?

[jimg]

With the developer tools, it looks like there is an iframe but the data I'm trying to see is not within it.

I think that Chrome's "View Source" is actually retrieving the initial login page, rather than the page displayed.  I'm viewing the page through a VPN connection to the router, so there may be some sort of security lockout.

Edited October 14, 2020 by jimg

[Danp2]

Does your site use the same interface as http://demo2.mt.lv/webfig/?

[jimg]

Yes, that's it.

[Danp2]

Ok... so which information are you wanting to capture?

[jimg]

The PPP/Active connections.  I have a bunch of fixed road warriors, plus my wife, who might connect from a few spots.  I'm tired of the brute force attacks on the L2TP open ports, so I want to firewall unknown IPs.  

[Danp2]

I can't test Active Connections because there aren't any on this demo site. However, this works for the Profiles tab --

#include <IE.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate("http://demo2.mt.lv/webfig")

Do
    Sleep(1000)
    $oElement = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "id_PPP")
Until IsObj($oElement)

_IEAction($oElement, "click")
Sleep(1000)

_IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Profiles") ; Change to "Active Connections"
Sleep(1000)

$oTable = _IETableGetCollection($oIE, 5)
$aTableData = _IETableWriteToArray($oTable, True)
_ArrayDisplay($aTableData)

Change the one line plus the URL and you should be able to test on your own server.

[jimg]

My page needs a username:password and I'll need to figure that out when I have a little more time.  Thanks for the sample, and I'll let you know if it works.

[Danp2]

For now, perform the login manually and change the _IECreate to _IEAttach.

[jimg]

I just did a SEND of the password and your script worked perfectly.  When you don't use Autoit very often and you get old, your brain obviously atrophies.

Thanks very much!