On 01/08/2013 07:38 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:20:28 -0800 (PST), iMath <redstone-c...@163.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ? > Chrome is a browser, is it not... If you want to get the text in > Python, you have to write the equivalent of a browser -- something that > parses the returned HTML message, extracting the parts you want.
To get a selection, you can either wait till it's copied to the clipboard, and get it from there, or you can write a addon for the application. Since Chrome accepts addons, I suggest you research that angle. Probably mozilla.org is the place to start, and function nsISelectionController::GetSelection() might be some place to examine. You might find some hints in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2671474/range-selection-and-mozilla if you are going to work with the clipboard, realize that it works quite differently from one OS to another, and even from one desktop manager to another. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
