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sstanfie
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Hello. Although I have done a fair amount of scripting using AutoIt for a few years, I have not yet created any scripts which interact with web pages via IE.au3.

The example listed below is part of a larger script, but as you can see, I'm doing a reverse address search at http://www.whitepages.com/10583/reverse_address ...

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#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.whitepages.com/10583/reverse_address")

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "reverse_address")

$oQuery1 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "street")

$oQuery2 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "city_zip")

_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery1, "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW")

_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery2, "20500")

_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)

_IELoadWait($oIE)

What I'm having a hard time figuring out is how to search the web page after the form is submitted. I want to know if there are any results and if so, what the address and phone is. I see _IEBodyReadHTML and _IEBodyReadText but I don't want to read all of this in, because it would be too difficult to try and sift through for any found results. I want to get the address into a variable (preferably 3... street, city and zip) and the phone number into another variable.

Can someone please explain how to do this?

Thank you in advance for your time.

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Study this. It should get you going.

I strongly suggest using DebugBar (see my sig)

$oContainer = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "results_header")
$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "strong", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oContainer = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "results_single_listing")
$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "h3", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "p", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "p", 1)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

Dale

Edit: missing parens

Edited by DaleHohm

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This was very helpful. Thank you.

And wow, DebugBar is great.

Study this. It should get you going.

I strongly suggest using DebugBar (see my sig)

$oContainer = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "results_header")
$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "strong", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oContainer = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "results_single_listing")
$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "h3", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "p", 0)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

$oResult = _IETagNameGetCollection($oContainer, "p", 1)
ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oResult, "innertext") & @CR)

Dale

Edit: missing parens

Edited by sstanfie
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