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IE Lesson from Welcome to Autoit 1-2-3

; Read the contents of the body of a webpage and search for a string. If the string is found, replace it 
; with a new string and write it back to the webpage.

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate()
_IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.autoitscript.com/")

$body = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

If StringInStr($body, "automation") Then
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "The string was found")
    $newbody = StringReplace($body, "automation", "AUTOMATION - Yeah!")
    _IEBodyWriteHTML($oIE, $newbody)
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Fail", "The string was NOT found")
EndIf

Exit

this could help alot

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I can't use the traditional FileGetTime because I don't have access to the actual file. I can only view it through IE.

Any ideas?

I was a bit late with the details, sorry about that Valuater. I can't edit the file either. I can only view it through IE.

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I'm not sure if it would be better to have autoit take a snapshot of the page every 30 seconds then open the page if there are differences. Or if I should try to have autoit view the source code every 30 seconds then open the page if there are changes.

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Meaby you need to read the body with IE and if somethings chanced in the body then launch the site

im not an programmer that can write these things in one sec so sorry hope i helped :whistle:

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Using Penny-Arcade to test and a little of Valuaters script I think I'm on the right track.

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate()
_IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.penny-arcade.com/")

$body = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

How do I store the results of the IEBodyReadHTML?

How do I compare them to a later read?

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Something like this should work for you.

#include <IE.au3>

$sURL = "http://www.penny-arcade.com/"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL)

$sHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

While WinExists(_IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd"))
    _IEAction($oIE, "refresh")
    $sTemp = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
    If $sTemp <> $sHTML Then
        ;;; Whatever you want to do here
        $sHTML = $sTemp
    EndIf
    ; Change this to control the time between checks
    Sleep(5000)
WEnd
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Wouldn't it be faster to check the filesize than checking the whole page? E.g. save the file and look for the size?

(Don't know how big this page is and if it just will grow bigger or actually "changes".)

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Wouldn't it be faster to check the filesize than checking the whole page? E.g. save the file and look for the size?

(Don't know how big this page is and if it just will grow bigger or actually "changes".)

He's pulling a webpage...you can't request file sizes from a web server. Yeah, he could save the file local but what if the changes cancel out giving the exact filesize again...it can happen...and does.

My whole enchillada suggestion is to capture the entire page and at a user defined interval, repull the page and do a stringinstr compare over the entire thing. Granted, if ANYTHING changes (like a timestamp), this won't work for what you may want (or maybe it will...I'm sadistic like that).

My Mexi-taco suggestion is if you know what you want to monitor for, you'll need to parse the page and extact that section and do stringinstring comparisions on that. If it returns false, the content has changed.

M2C

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This seems to work nicely.

#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

$sURL = "http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?act=idx"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

$sHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

While WinExists($hwnd)
    _IEAction($oIE, "refresh")
    $sTemp = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
    If $sTemp <> $sHTML Then
        MsgBox(0, "", "The page changed!", 2)
        WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
        $sHTML = $sTemp
    EndIf
    ; Change this to control the time between checks
    Sleep(5000)
WEnd
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Big_daddy, your script seems to be refreshing the page. I'm sure there are behind-the-scenes changes but I only need to be made aware of changes if they are "visible". I think sshrum may be on the right track. I can find the sections in HTML that I need to keep tabs on but I'm not sure how to compare just those sections to section reads taken at a later time. I'm experimenting with stringinstr. No luck so far. Does anyone out there already know how to make this work?

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I can't seem to figure this out. Any sugestions?

My example would work perfectly for this, you just need to change it up a bit. This should give you some idea. Notice how I'm only monitoring the table that has a class of "newslink" (i.e. the top part that says Welcome Back).

#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

$sURL = "http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?act=idx"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

$sHTML = _GetNewsTable($oIE)
If @error Then
    MsgBox(48, "Error", "Unable to find specified table.")
    Exit
EndIf   

While WinExists($hwnd)
    _IEAction($oIE, "refresh")
    $sTemp = _GetNewsTable($oIE)
    If Not @error Then
        If $sTemp <> $sHTML Then
            MsgBox(0, "", "The page changed!", 2)
            WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
            $sHTML = $sTemp
        EndIf
    EndIf
    ; Change this to control the time between checks
    Sleep(5000)
WEnd

Func _GetNewsTable($o_IE)
    $o_Tables = _IETableGetCollection($o_IE)
    For $o_Table In $o_Tables
        If $o_Table.className == "newslink" Then
            $s_HTML = $o_Table.innerHTML
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
    If $s_HTML == "" Then
        SetError(1)
        Return 0
    EndIf
    Return $s_HTML
EndFunc   ;==>_GetNewsTable
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It's an internal webpage, but for an example we could use www.penny-arcade.com.

get the title of the current comic
store that info in memory somewhere
30 seconds later look at the name of the current comic again
if it's the same then nothing happens
if it's different then the new name gets stored in memory and the page is opened
then repeat the process until i exit the script

Any ideas?

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It's an internal webpage, but for an example we could use www.penny-arcade.com.

get the title of the current comic
store that info in memory somewhere
30 seconds later look at the name of the current comic again
if it's the same then nothing happens
if it's different then the new name gets stored in memory and the page is opened
then repeat the process until i exit the script

Any ideas?

Do I have to write the whole thing for you? :whistle:

The current comic title is "Turnabout", view the webpage source and search for that.

Below is the first thing it finds, notice the class name. :)

<div class="title">Turnabout</div>

Now reference my last post and see what you can come up with.

p.s. You will want to use .innerText instead of .innerHTML :)

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Thanks for all the help. I think were getting close.

#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
$s_string ='class="title"'
$sURL = "http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

$sHTML = StringInStr(.innerText, $s_string)

While WinExists($hwnd)
    _IEAction($oIE, "refresh")
    $sTemp = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
    If $sTemp <> $sHTML Then
        MsgBox(0, "", "The page changed!", 2)
        $sHTML = $sTemp
    EndIf
   ; Change this to control the time between checks
    Sleep(5000)
WEnd

I get an error

.innertext is referenced outside a with statment

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It would actually be more like this:

#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

_IEErrorHandlerRegister()

$sURL = "http://www.penny-arcade.com/"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

$sText = _GetComicTitle($oIE)
If @error Then
    MsgBox(48, "Error", "Unable to find specified element.")
    Exit
EndIf

While WinExists($hwnd)
    _IEAction($oIE, "refresh")
    $sTemp = _GetComicTitle($oIE)
    If Not @error Then
        If $sTemp <> $sText Then
            MsgBox(0, "", "The page changed!", 2)
            WinSetState($hwnd, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
            $sText = $sTemp
        EndIf
    EndIf
    ; Change this to control the time between checks
    Sleep(5000)
WEnd

Func _GetComicTitle($o_IE)
    $s_Text = ""
    $o_Divs = _IETagNameGetCollection($o_IE, "DIV")
    For $o_Div In $o_Divs
        If $o_Div.className == "title" Then
            $s_Text = $o_Div.innerText
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
    If $s_Text == "" Then
        SetError(1)
        Return 0
    EndIf
    Return $s_Text
EndFunc   ;==>_GetComicTitle
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