Hi Mark You used to be able to use xmlhttprequest() from a file: URI to read the HTML source of a page, but recently browsers have prohibited it. Firefox extensions can still use xmlhttprequest to read arbitrary URLs.
Can you give a bit more detail about what you're trying to accomplish? Best wishes Jeremy On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Mark S. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > I realize I didn't phrase this very well. > > What I would like is a way to take a URL, and pull the contents of that > page into a tiddler for processing. I'm not looking for a way to snip the > contents of an open web page, though I'm sure there is plenty of demand for > that. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > On Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:38:59 AM UTC-8, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to grab the contents of a web page on the net in order to >> process it for viewing portions inside a tiddler in my local TW file. >> >> Is there a way to do this? I didn't see anything in the API or the XPCOM >> that explicitly allows this, but figure it must be allowable since I'm >> viewing from a local file. >> >> I'm using TW classic on FireFox. >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
