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nugax

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easy way to pull some text off a webpage
« on: February 19, 2018, 01:33:57 am »
Hi,

I am looking for a simple way to pull some text (not html just text) from a webpage.
Ive seen lots of synapse stuff googling, and thats a little much for what I want to do.

Does anyone know a simple way to request a webpage and read into a string the result of the page/request over simple http?
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Re: easy way to pull some text off a webpage
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2018, 07:05:22 am »
This highly depends on the complexity of the web page. There are multiple examples on this forum.
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bytebites

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Re: easy way to pull some text off a webpage
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2018, 08:15:51 am »
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]
  1.  
  2. uses fphttpclient;
  3. ...
  4. var
  5.   s: String;
  6. begin
  7.   s := TFPCustomHTTPClient.SimpleGet('http://a_site/a_page');
  8. end;
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Re: easy way to pull some text off a webpage
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2018, 08:19:35 am »
No, bytebites, that will fetch the complete html ...
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Re: easy way to pull some text off a webpage
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2018, 10:01:32 am »
Quote from: Thaddy on February 19, 2018, 08:19:35 am
No, bytebites, that will fetch the complete html ...
I don't think you have any other choices, very seldom a web provides text/plain response along with text/html. What you can do is indeed grab the whole HTML and then strip the tags as needed.
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