Ok, so therefore you won't need Firebug. You should match the regular expression <embed.*?src=["'].*?swf["'] on the source code of the pages. If there are matches, the page contains Flash. For checking regular expressions, please see my add-on RExT<https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/rext/> .
Sebastian On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:11:06 PM UTC+1, Ebrahim Khalil Abbasi wrote: > > Thanks for the answer. > > Let me describe a bit more about what I need. > > I am doing a survey covering about 800 web sites. The URLs for these web > sites are gathered in a database. I read each URL from the database and use > a parser to load the source code of the related web site. Due to some > limitations in my study, I want to filter out those web sites that contain > flash object from my survey. If the URL contains the word "flash" or there > are special tags in the source code such as iframe with a src attribute > containing the 'flash', I assume that this web site includes flash object. > I was wondering is there any better way to perform this? > > Ebrahim > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:54:41 PM UTC+1, Sebo wrote: >> >> Are you talking about pages like e.g. WATERLIFE<http://waterlife.nfb.ca/> >> ? >> Firebug doesn't "detect" Flash. Maybe you are searching for >> Flashbug<http://blog.coursevector.com/flashbug>, >> which is an extension to >> Firebug<http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Extensions>. >> If you want to block flash, you might want to install >> Flashblock<https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/flashblock> >> . >> But it's totally unclear what you want to reach. >> >> Sebastian >> >> On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:20:31 PM UTC+1, Ebrahim Khalil Abbasi wrote: >>> >>> How the firebug can detect a web site is a flash based web site? Is >>> there any parser in java that can detect a web site is flash based? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ebrahim >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug
