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[Benny-D]

Is there any command in AHK that will allow me to get the source of a webpage (HTML code) by its URL without openning it in any browser like IE or Firefox?

[Red Hat Dude]

I imagine so, but I wouldn't know it.
What you need is a command to save a file from the internet onto your hard drive. A copy command or something. An Html file would be downloadable just like any other; right-click on a link and choose 'save target', and what you get is an html file (source).

[poo_noo]

probably look at

UrlDownloadToFile
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/UrlDownloadToFile.htm
and then

FileRead
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FileRead.htm
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[Benny-D]

Thank You!!!

[Benny-D]

I used UrlDownloadToFile command and
saved files as .txt - everything worked fine untill I tried doing
the same thing with a website where my password was needed.

For some reason it doesn't download an html source of a
page that I need, but instead downloads the code of a page,
in which I have to enter my password.

The problem is even if I enter my password and right after
that use UrlDownloadToFile to download
the html code of the needed page, it will still download the
''enter-the-password page'' instead. Why is it so? Does it mean
that I cannot do it away without using a web browser?

[n-l-i-d]

You can use cURL instead...

[Benny-D]

What is cURL?
I've looked through AHK Help file and didn't find it there.

[Mustang]

[Benny-D]

Thank you very much for this link, but I read all the posts there and went to the main cUrl page (http://curl.haxx.se/) and tried to download it, and after I downloded it, I couldn't install it.

I have extracted the downloaded zip file (curl-7.18.2.tar) and got several folders out of it with some subfolders and files in them, but none of them is named like ''install'' or ''setup''.

So I don't know how to install 'cURL' properly. (I read the whole front page and FAQ section of cURL website - to no avail). Can you please tell me how I should do it?

[engunneer]

AFAIR, cURL isn;t really "installed" just unzip and run.

did you download a windows binary for cURL?
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[HugoV]

Go here:
http://www.paehl.com/open_source/index.php?CURL_7.18.2

Download libcurl.dll that's the only thing you need with the libcurl
example. But my bet is that it might be a bit too complicated
for you (dll calls) you might try to regular curl (exe) with command
line options.

Go to the download page http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
and get one of the Win32 - Generic issues, unzip and in the
BIN directory you will find curl.exe which you need.

There is plenty of documentation for curl. (Personally I prefer wget
which is similar to curl)

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