Hi all, the task of Jim is, as I understand, that he wants a correct actual browser interpretation of the file, that is, what Safari displays, some say HTMLtoTEXT to such a conversion. LC's status for 'the htmltext' is HTML of before 2005 ...
The applescript is probably instable because of delayed result sending/ getting but it's the most actual interpretation you can have. Now I just looked into my treasure chest for MacOS and found the following. I tested once for 50 files. Worked stable and very fast. (This is the conversion method that TextEdit uses). Hermann -- DOES NOT CONVERT text that is javascript generated by a browser. -- Convert files on MacOS, tested on 10.11/ 10.12 -- Outputs to an input-file with the ending changed to format -- "textutil -convert format <inputfile.format> -- format is one of the following -- txt, html or htm, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml, odt, webarchive on mouseUp set defaultfolder to \ "/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail Downloads/elec_web/precincts/" put the files into fs -- filter fs with/without some criterium repeat for each line f in fs put shell("textutil -convert txt " & f) into nirwana end repeat end mouseUp If you have all files and only these in one folder you could simply use: (all files converted by one line, you could do that also in Terminal). on mouseUp put "/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail Downloads/elec_web/precincts/" into f0 -- assuming all files to convert end in "htm" put shell("textutil -convert txt " & f0&"*.htm") into nirwana end mouseUp -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Get-url-file-tp4705988p4706032.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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