Jerry Daniels has an excellent series on screen scraping. Several video lessons.
http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-1 On 12 June 2011 02:27, Keith Clarke <keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk>wrote: > Hi folks, > Local rainy Saturday night broadband load prevented me from seeing the > whole of Colin Holgate's fascinating LiveCode Live presentation on working > with web page source HTML text - so I can't wait for the recording! > > Meanwhile, I'm trying to extract various html tags and specific attributes > from a page's source code - you know, this and that, where <tag>stuff="this" > other_stuff="that"</tag> > > I'm trying to create the situation where I can iterate through the text > using something like 'repeat for each tag' and within that loop, 'repeat for > each attribute' - the question is, how to get the source HTML text > structured and delimited so that 'HTML tag = line' and 'HTML tag attribute = > Item' > > Given there are no obvious single character itemDelimiters in HTML and the > inefficiency of building-up an algorithm from scratch with chunk functions, > are any specialised resources, techniques or tricks available - maybe I > missed something in the libURL feature-set? > Best, > Keith.. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode