how can I start loading a webpage and then wait until certain text appears on the screen/within the document

[lacrosse1991]

Hello,

How can I start loading a webpage and then make my script wait until certain text appears in the webpage?

I tried using com at first, but the webpage will finish loading before the content actually appears on the webpage.

This is what I initially tried (this method just waited for the page finish loading)

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ie := comobjcreate("internetexplorer.application")
ie.navigate("https://itsm..com/sm/index.do?ctx=docEngine&file=probsummary&query=number%3D%22IM102621301%22&action=&title=Incident%20IM102621301")
While ie.busy
    Sleep 10
ie.visible := true
MsgBox The page is done loading.

[boiler]

You want to detect it before the page has finished loading?

[Xeo786]

I have same issue following code didn't work for me when I run event onchange,

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While wb.readyState != 4 || wb.document.readyState != "complete" || wb.busy ; wait for the page to load
   Sleep, 10

there was some java elements involved, coz webpage didn't refresh but page take time to retrieve data when I hit onchange event...
and there was text appear on screen saying.... "Loading.... please wait"

so I took screen shot of that, corp image, showing only "it" from "wait" that "it" was quite unique so I applied image search to wait until that text stay on screen

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sleep 100
Loop 
{
CoordMode Pixel, screen
ImageSearch, imageX, imageY, 0, 0, A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight, *TransWhite D:\loading\loading_it.png 
if (imageY > 1) 
{
sleep 100
}
else if (imageY == "")
Break
}
sleep 100

I was really confuse to figure out how to search image that is transparent.
then I saw " *TransWhite"
that worked for me

[Blackholyman]

fyi - Some pages use javascript or ajax or some other method to create elements after the page load is complete

one way to check for them is to

do the normal load wait like in the OP's example and then use something like this

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loaded := false
While !loaded
{
    try
    {
        if (ie.document.getElementById("some_ID").innertext != "")
            loaded := true
    }
    Sleep 100
}

Hope it helps

[lacrosse1991]

fyi - Some pages use javascript or ajax or some other method to create elements after the page load is complete

one way to check for them is to

do the normal load wait like in the OP's example and then use something like this

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loaded := false
While !loaded
{
    try
    {
        if (ie.document.getElementById("some_ID").innertext != "")
            loaded := true
    }
    Sleep 100
}

Hope it helps

Hi, thanks! I was actually looking at this and unfortunately it looks like the IDs for the elements change whenever the page is updated. For example, I am trying to wait for a save button to show up:

<button type="button" id="ext-gen334" class=" x-btn-text" aria-label="Save (Ctrl+Shift+F4)" style="background-image: url("images/toolbar/tsave.png");">Save</button>

All of those details will stay the same but the ID/name will have a different number at the end, say ext-gen334 for example. Would it be possible to get an element by its aria label, link text, etc?

I have same issue following code didn't work for me when I run event onchange,

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While wb.readyState != 4 || wb.document.readyState != "complete" || wb.busy ; wait for the page to load
   Sleep, 10

there was some java elements involved, coz webpage didn't refresh but page take time to retrieve data when I hit onchange event...
and there was text appear on screen saying.... "Loading.... please wait"

so I took screen shot of that, corp image, showing only "it" from "wait" that "it" was quite unique so I applied image search to wait until that text stay on screen

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sleep 100
Loop 
{
CoordMode Pixel, screen
ImageSearch, imageX, imageY, 0, 0, A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight, *TransWhite D:\loading\loading_it.png 
if (imageY > 1) 
{
sleep 100
}
else if (imageY == "")
Break
}
sleep 100

Thanks! I think I may give blackholyman's suggestion a try first but I planning on giving this a go if I'm not able to get his solution to work.

[Xeo786]

fyi - Some pages use javascript or ajax or some other method to create elements after the page load is complete

one way to check for them is to

do the normal load wait like in the OP's example and then use something like this

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loaded := false
While !loaded
{
    try
    {
        if (ie.document.getElementById("some_ID").innertext != "")
            loaded := true
    }
    Sleep 100
}

Hope it helps

Yes you did helped me, normal load worked only for in dropdownlist, and there was so many dorpdownboxs and I was failed, now I get how to wait for java