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[7121]

Does anyone know if autoit is capable of searching a source of a certain website and find a certain link? o_0?

FOR EXAMPLE:

THere are multiple files that have been sorted out to like 1A, 1B, 1C and so on.

However within the source, the link to these sites for the download is given through "</a>"

Such as:

<a href="/download.aspx?objectId=25708" class="level1">1b</a>

basically is there a way for autoit to search for that certain link and retreive.

My basic plan is to just activate the view source window, copy and paste it to some notepad and let the autoit run through the list... but just thought i asked.

OKAY, forget that plan, the main GOAL is to detect links on a website and click on it... anyone? haha

Edited November 29, 2008 by 7121

[GEOSoft]

Does anyone know if autoit is capable of searching a source of a certain website and find a certain link? o_0?

FOR EXAMPLE:

THere are multiple files that have been sorted out to like 1A, 1B, 1C and so on.

However within the source, the link to these sites for the download is given through "</a>"

Such as:

<a href="/download.aspx?objectId=25708" class="level1">1b</a>

basically is there a way for autoit to search for that certain link and retreive.

My basic plan is to just activate the view source window, copy and paste it to some notepad and let the autoit run through the list... but just thought i asked.

You can get the source by using _InetGetSource() How much of the link do you want?

[toonboon]

EDIT: nvm I suck at using StringRegExp()

Edited November 26, 2008 by toonboon

[7121]

You can get the source by using _InetGetSource() How much of the link do you want?

LIKE, around 10-30 links each time hahah.

_InGetSource() huh?

i'll have a look at it thanks.

[DaleHohm]

You may want to take a look at the example in the helpfile for _IELinkGetCollection

Dale

[7121]

thanks Dale, i took a look at the _IELinkGetCollection, however, not what i wanted though becuase i'm using Firefox.

I decided to go with the routine of copying a certain chunk in the source where the links are given, the links are then converted to strings and trimmed or sorted until a final link is displayed. it is then inserted into the browser for download.

However, i have a problem. During the sorting process or replacement process to be exact, i can't replace a certain pattern of a string.

For Example:

http://watchview.com/watch.aspx?episodeId=26114" class=volume2>1a</a>

Now, i can remove the </a> but the number after the = sign is hard to deal with.

Does anyone know a way to replace the 26114 so that AutoIt knows that pattern can be any number.

Also, The Number varies from 1000 somethign about about 1000000 something. (4-7) digits to be exact. So how do i put in the pattern match for that 26114, considering the number can extend.... or shorten.

So bottomline is basically this:

you got number 123456.

Those digits can be any number and range from 4 to 7 digits.

Example: 0001, 12353, 1375091, 7654321, and so on....

How do i make a matching pattern so that AutoIt can replace that number with a number i desire.

[GEOSoft]

$sStr = 'http://watchview.com/watch.aspx?episodeId=26114" class=volume2>1a</a>'

$sStr = StringRegExpReplace($sStr, "(?i)(.+=)\d{4,7}.+</a>", "\1")

Edited December 9, 2008 by GEOSoft

[7121]

ZOMG!!!, thank you...

but can you expalin it too haha. I know that whole line right there solved my problem but can you tell me what each Match did? like the (.+=) for example?

or do i have to read the manual ?

[GEOSoft]

ZOMG!!!, thank you...

but can you expalin it too haha. I know that whole line right there solved my problem but can you tell me what each Match did? like the (.+=) for example?

or do i have to read the manual ?

Reading the manual is never a bad idea anyway.

(/i) Just says that it's not case sensitivw (wouldn't matter here anyway)

(.+=) means catch anything up to and including the "=" sign.

\d{4,7}</a> because it's outside the brackets means to stop matching when it finds 4 to 7 digits followed by </a>

If there was a more specific portion of the string that you wanted then it could all be done in one step. Very likely the whole list can be extracted (as an array) from the block with a single RegExp but I didn't have a sample block of code to work from.

Edited December 9, 2008 by GEOSoft

[7121]

Reading the manual is never a bad idea anyway.

(/i) Just says that it's not case sensitivw (wouldn't matter here anyway)

(.+=) means catch anything up to and including the "=" sign.

\d{4,7}</a> because it's outside the brackets means to stop matching when it finds 4 to 7 digits followed by </a>

If there was a more specific portion of the string that you wanted then it could all be done in one step. Very likely the whole list can be extracted (as an array) from the block with a single RegExp but I didn't have a sample block of code to work from.

THAAANK YOOOU i shall continue to study more it.

I also didn't really have any idea on how to use the maths like (/i) but this example might able to help. THNX

[GEOSoft]

THAAANK YOOOU i shall continue to study more it.

I also didn't really have any idea on how to use the maths like (/i) but this example might able to help. THNX

Acually (/i) is a mistake on my part. It should have been (?i)