Pulling Text From A Web Page

[NSearch]

I am trying to pull information for a web page, and store it in a text file.

The program will loop through a series of claim numbers, entering in the information, and retrieving the related information.

Any advice would be great.

I am trying to retrieve information in a table that is setup like this:

Payment Information

Payment Address: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

3820 XXXXX DR

XXXXXXX, XX, 43204

Payment Type: XXXXXX

Paid Amount: XXX.XX USD

Method: XXXXXX

Payment Date: XX/XX/XXX

Check Number: XXXXXXXX

[kjactive]

Well I would use a component, could be embeded into an intuition of some kind

$URL='http://www.AutoItScript.com' // could be any URL but I don't know about protection tags set 'on'

$httpObj = ObjCreate("winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1")
$httpObj.open("GET",$URL)
$httpObj.send()

$HTMLSource = $httpObj.Responsetext
ConsoleWrite($HTMLSource)
$httpObj = 0 // free the object

You just have to do the search in the html code your self in some manner like with stringinstr(....

hope this can help

kjactive

Edited May 11, 2006 by kjactive

[big_daddy]

First you need the IE.au3 UDF's

Then I'd suggest reading the Docs

Then you can use _IETableWriteToArray

Edit: Adding missing link

Edited May 11, 2006 by big_daddy

[NSearch]

I am getting the following error when using $array = _IETableWriteToArray($oIE)

/autoit3dir "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta" /UserParams

>Running AU3Check params: from:C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTe\au3check\

+>AU3Check ended.rc:0

>Running:(3.1.1.122):C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta\autoit3.exe "C:\XXXXXXXXXXXX.au3"

C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta\Include\IE.au3 (1091) : ==> The requested action with this object has failed.:

$trs = $o_object.rows

$trs = $o_object.rows^ ERROR

+>AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0

[DaleHohm]

I am getting the following error when using $array = _IETableWriteToArray($oIE)

/autoit3dir "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta" /UserParams

>Running AU3Check params: from:C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTe\au3check\

+>AU3Check ended.rc:0

>Running:(3.1.1.122):C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta\autoit3.exe "C:\XXXXXXXXXXXX.au3"

C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\beta\Include\IE.au3 (1091) : ==> The requested action with this object has failed.:

$trs = $o_object.rows

$trs = $o_object.rows^ ERROR

+>AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0

You must get a reference to the table and pass that into the _IETableWriteToArray(), not the browser object ($oIE). The docs that big_daddy pointed you to will give you detail on the expected parameters.

Dale

[NSearch]

Thank you Dale. It has been awhile since I used IE.au3, and I am a little rusty.

I appreciate your help.

[DaleHohm]

Thank you Dale. It has been awhile since I used IE.au3, and I am a little rusty.

I appreciate your help.

No problem... a few minutes with big_daddy's docs... a half a dozen lines of code... I think you'll be pleased with the results.

Dale

P.S. the next beta baselevel will return an error status telling you invalid object type instead of the abrupt, cryptic error you receive now.

Edited May 11, 2006 by DaleHohm