Extracting data from web pages

[PhotonDemon]

Hi All,

I'm interested in extracting data from web pages using VA Smalltalk. Has anyone tried this? Any ideas or hints on where to start will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Lou

[tc]

Hello,

You message is brief, so, at the most basic level, one could do something like:

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'http://www.yahoo.com/' sstAsUrl  fetch

. . . and parse through the HTML that is returned.

--tc

[PhotonDemon]

Hello,

You message is brief, so, at the most basic level, one could do something like:

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'http://www.yahoo.com/' sstAsUrl  fetch

. . . and parse through the HTML that is returned.

--tc

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the brief request. Your suggestion is a good start. Is there an existing parser that will parse the returned HTML?

[tc]

Hello,

I am not aware of an HTML parser but if you are trying extract certain information, given all of ST's string functions should be fairly easy to drill down into the HTML and pull out what you need.

--tc