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ls78
PostPosted: July 10th, 2008, 9:24 pm 
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i want to make a script that will return a few lines of text from a website on where the mobile speed camera are located every week . as there is no rss feed for this . i just want a gui on my desktop showing the information without having to load the whole page.



ok any ideas , am i asking too much from autohotkey ?


ok , what i want to do is make a gui that loads some text from a website

any ideas would be great .

thanks for reading.
luke


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PostPosted: July 10th, 2008, 9:28 pm 
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I have no idea how to do this with AHK, but this site lets you create RSS feeds for websites that don't offer feeds.


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You could UrlDownloadToFile the web page, then, assuming there is some sort of identifier around the info you are looking for, pull the text from the file with a RegExMatch or something?


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it would help if you can tell us the website or a similar one.

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ok this its the website .


http://www.safetycameraswiltshire.co.uk/mobile.asp


cheers for your intrest


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PostPosted: July 11th, 2008, 4:14 pm 
1. Do a View Source of the webpage
2. Search your target text in the source

Code:
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pt"><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A303; A36, M4, A419, A338, A346, A30, A354, A342, A360, A350, B390, A429, B4040, Swindon and Trowbridge areas.</span></font></span></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p>


3. Find the smallest unique html before and after your target, then use something like this:

Code:
; BEWARE! Both RegEx and AHK need certain escape sequences!
;
; http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm
; http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/RegEx-QuickRef.htm
;
before := "4""><font face=""Arial"" size=""3""><span style=""FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"">"
after := "<"

; "(.*)" is regex for: return anything in match variable as array
pattern := before . "(.*)" . after

URLDownloadToFile, http://www.safetycameraswiltshire.co.uk/mobile.asp, %A_ScriptDir%\html.tmp
FileRead, aFile, %A_ScriptDir%\html.tmp
RegExMatch(aFile, pattern, match)
MsgBox % match1


disclaimer: not tested, but should work

HTH


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hey n-l-i-d well done !


works a treat . than you very much , very nice and easy instructions ,




cheers

luke .


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n-l-i-d wrote:
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; BEWARE! Both RegEx and AHK need certain escape sequences!
To prevent having to escape and thus easier changable in the future, you can use this: (not tested)
Code:
pattern := "\Q" . before . "\E(.*)\Q" . after . "\E"

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