reading web page data
When I display a progarm in Netscape 7 I can us the "File/Save pages as.." to save the page contents as eitehr an HTML file or a text file.
In Delphi 7 I can  display a web page using the webbrowser control.
Does anyone know how to save the contents of the page displayed in a web browser to a test file, preferrably in the text file format (ie dropping all the html tags)
Alternately can I down load an html file directly from a site using some other method within Delphi.
Having downloaded a file containing html code - can I strip that back to just the actual text displayed without all the formatting tabs?
In Delphi 7 I can  display a web page using the webbrowser control.
Does anyone know how to save the contents of the page displayed in a web browser to a test file, preferrably in the text file format (ie dropping all the html tags)
Alternately can I down load an html file directly from a site using some other method within Delphi.
Having downloaded a file containing html code - can I strip that back to just the actual text displayed without all the formatting tabs?
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mgazza
imput a fully valid http address and you get the raw data back erm if u put in a scrpit it reurns the results not the file!
mgazza, it will return the HTML text and that is what idHTTP does for him, anyway.
ye i know just thats all you need, no web brouser component
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Thanks for your comments - the URLDownloadToFile method in the first reponse worked so I have whatever other components were required. I wrote my own html stripping routine since the data was all in HTML tables so I was able to built up rows from cells in tab delimited format.
BTW - It's her not him
Kymberley
BTW - It's her not him
Kymberley
Sorry for the confusion...
I have code to get the data from table cells using the DOM if you want it.
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Thanks for the offer eddie, but i have already written that code - and already downloaded the data i was after from the internet and loaded into my databases. The download method was the crucial hint I needed.
good luck all!!!