Get Text from Webside - (Locked)

[Hostinator]

Hello AutoIt Forum,

I'm tyring to get a String from a Website.

The String I'm looking for is the one marked in blue:

So far I only managed to get the sites source code, with this function:

;$URL = "http://localhost:8111/"

Func _HTTP_ResponseText($URL)
    $oHTTP = ObjCreate("winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1")
    $oHTTP.Open("GET", $URL, False)
    $oHTTP.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/html; charset=UTF-8")
    $oHTTP.Send()

    return $oHTTP.ResponseText
EndFunc

However this only returns the source code, which does not contain the actual String data.

Theres got to be a way to link to the "hud-dmg-msg-root" ID, in order to get to the "textlines".

 

I must admit that I have no idea on how HTML works, I hope you can excuse that.

Thanks in advance.

[Trong]

Why you only get the original HTML

When you fetch a webpage’s source code (using View Source, curl, requests, etc.), you only receive the raw HTML sent by the server.
The browser then runs JavaScript, which modifies the DOM (for example: replacing XXX_YYY with translated text).
Because your code does not execute JavaScript, you cannot see the rendered text.

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How to get the rendered HTML (after JavaScript runs)

You must use a tool that acts like a real browser and executes JavaScript:

Best options:

• Playwright → fastest, modern, recommended

• Puppeteer → great for Node.js

• Selenium + ChromeDriver → traditional but slower

These tools load the page, run the JavaScript, and let you extract the fully rendered DOM.

[Jos]

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

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