Need help with getting text data from web site.

[Megalo]

This is my first post at this community. I've got a problem with getting text data from web site.

If it's just a html web site, you can use "GetLayoutObjectAttribute("web viewer"; content)" to parse all the html written in the web page.

But if I do the same thing in order to get text data from the web like http://hoge.com/test.txt,

unnecessary text part come with it.( like html header part)

I've found the plug-in "Troi URL", with that I can parse the only part of the text I want.

But if there is another way to do this without plug-in, that'll be awesome.

Because I want to make an exe file with Developer Utility mode.

(I guess that making exe file doesnt support plug-in)

sorry for my poor english.

If you have any idea, help me please.

[Lee Smith]

A search of this Topic Area will provide a few Threads on this Subject. Here is one that has a couple of demonstration files that helped me get started. Link

BTW, the first one worked for me better than the modified one.

HTH

Lee

Edited September 25, 2009 by Guest

[Megalo]

Hi, Lee! Thanks for reply =)

I took a look at the link you put.

But, that was not about I'm talking about.

the thing on your link was about how to get rid of all the tags, and make it as text.

What I was trying to mean was about

how to get real .txt file from web site.

http://yutori7.2ch.net/ogame2/dat/1253872803.dat

If you go to this web site,

each comment(Record) is separated by every line,

and every field is separated by "<>"

*sorry, its all written in Japanese.

I want it how it's shown as you see that dat file with notepad(Windows App)

But if I try to get its text with web viewer, unnecessary header comes with it every time.

like:'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Shift_JIS"?>

When you get data from web viewer, it always adds unnecessary part somehow.

I wonder if there is any way to solve this without plug-in??

[Lee Smith]

I don't think that there is a plugin that will do what you describe.

Before Web Viewer, I would past the web page into BBEdit or TextWrangler, and remove the unwanted information using Grep Patterns, and a AppleScript, and then import the data into Filemaker.

Using the Web Viewer, I have adapted the file I pointed to, and use a combination of Custom Functions that can be found at fmfunctions and Brian Dunning, along with the functions that you would have used in the past such as Right, Left, Substitute, ScriptMaker, etc. to parse data.

HTH

Lee

[Megalo]

Hi, Lee

Thanks for all your help.

I'll try do that with the CustomFunction as you mentioned.

Thanks again =)