Getting Page Source Data from IE

[Mercury049]

Hello All.

I would like to use the COM to get data from an Active window. Is this possible? I saw in the help on AutoIT I could use the COM to OPEN a page and get the source, but I need to get the source on an already open window. Is this possible? Is this the best method? If so, what do I need to do to get it? Below is what I've tried so far which is a miserable failure thus far.

winWaitActive("Window I am looking for - Microsoft Internet Explorer")
    
$actWind = WinActive("Manual Queue Detail - Microsoft Internet Explorer")
$oHTTP = ObjCreate("winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1")
$oHTTP.Open("Get",$actWind)
$oHTTP.Send()
$HTMLSource = $oHTTP.Responsetext

UPDATE: After looking at my code I see that WinActive will only return a 1 if it is active, so this would NOT point the $oHTTP.Open statement to my active window. How can I do this?

Edited September 4, 2008 by Mercury049

[Richard Robertson]

You need to use the IE COM object to access IE. If you are using HttpRequest, you don't connect through any browser.

[nobbe]

;

; get src of already openend page with regular browser

;

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

#include <IE.au3>

Global $oIE ;

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

$Browser = GUICreate("Browser", 650, 450, 185, 145)

$btn_get = GUICtrlCreateButton("get src", 538, 24, 80, 21, 0)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

#EndRegion ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

While 1

$msg = GUIGetMsg()

Select

Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

Case $msg = $btn_get

$oIE = _IEAttach("WINDOWS NAME") ; USE HERE WINDOW NAME !!

$my_text = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

ClipPut($my_text);

MsgBox(0, "test", $my_text);

EndSelect

WEnd

GUIDelete()

Exit

[Mercury049]

;

; get src of already openend page with regular browser

;

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

#include <IE.au3>

Global $oIE ;

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

$Browser = GUICreate("Browser", 650, 450, 185, 145)

$btn_get = GUICtrlCreateButton("get src", 538, 24, 80, 21, 0)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

#EndRegion ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

While 1

$msg = GUIGetMsg()

Select

Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

Case $msg = $btn_get

$oIE = _IEAttach("WINDOWS NAME") ; USE HERE WINDOW NAME !!

$my_text = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

ClipPut($my_text);

MsgBox(0, "test", $my_text);

EndSelect

WEnd

GUIDelete()

Exit

Thank you both for your answers. I've tried working with the code above, but I keep getting a 0 returned. I have an "If" statement making sure I'm on the correct active window and I know there's a source to it because I can view it manually. Am I missing something?

[PsaltyDS]

Thank you both for your answers. I've tried working with the code above, but I keep getting a 0 returned. I have an "If" statement making sure I'm on the correct active window and I know there's a source to it because I can view it manually. Am I missing something?

The default match mode for _IEAttach() is document title, which is not the same as window title. More reliable would be HWND:

$sWinTitle = "Window I am looking for - Microsoft Internet Explorer"
WinWaitActive($sWinTitle)
$hWin = WinGetHandle($sWinTitle) 
$oIE = _IEAttach($hWin, "hwnd")
$sHTML = _IEDocReadHTML($oIE)
MsgBox(64, "HTML", $sHTML)

[DaleHohm]

If this is a new issue, it is not wise to reopen a dormant topic.

More likely than an issue with new AutoIt verseion, it is likely that you have a browser process in an odd state on your system. Please insure there are no iexplore.exe processes running on your system and try again or logout/reboot to see if the problem disappears.

Dale

Edited October 14, 2008 by DaleHohm