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you may need to use Replace function to created a regex.
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you may need to use Replace function to created a regex.

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&gt; Grab every 10 words after the word NASA on the Fox news homepage<br />
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&nbsp; Again it would depend on how the content is formatted. &nbsp;&quot;NASA&quot; could be in the middle of plain text,<br />
&nbsp; or in the middle of html tags &lt;span style=&quot;....&quot;&gt;NASA&lt;/span&gt;. One approach would be to remove all<br />
&nbsp; of the html tags first &nbsp;(see udf from cflib.org) &nbsp;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=1598" rel="ugc">http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=1598</a><br />
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&nbsp; Then use a regex (or possibly adapt this function) to grab the next 10 words after &quot;NASA&quot;<br />
&nbsp; <a href="http://www.cflib.org/udf/FullLeft" rel="ugc">http://www.cflib.org/udf/FullLeft</a><br />

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> Grab every 10 words after the word NASA on the Fox news homepage

  Again it would depend on how the content is formatted.  "NASA" could be in the middle of plain text,
  or in the middle of html tags <span style="....">NASA</span>. One approach would be to remove all
  of the html tags first  (see udf from cflib.org)  
   http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=1598 [http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=1598]

  Then use a regex (or possibly adapt this function) to grab the next 10 words after "NASA"
  http://www.cflib.org/udf/FullLeft [http://www.cflib.org/udf/FullLeft]


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This is a sort of general question. &nbsp;What I'm looking for is a method to scrape data from a web page, such a a few numbers or a few words, and embed them in a cfset variable. &nbsp;I was just curious if anyone may have a reference or path I could get on to figure out how to do this. &nbsp;For example, ColdFusion heads over to the Fox news website and grabs the front page. I can later grab data out of this page if it exists. i.e. Grab every 10 words after the word NASA on the Fox news homepage. Make sense?
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This is a sort of general question.  What I'm looking for is a method to scrape data from a web page, such a a few numbers or a few words, and embed them in a cfset variable.  I was just curious if anyone may have a reference or path I could get on to figure out how to do this.  For example, ColdFusion heads over to the Fox news website and grabs the front page. I can later grab data out of this page if it exists. i.e. Grab every 10 words after the word NASA on the Fox news homepage. Make sense?

Scrape Data From Web Page and Add to Variables in ColdFusion

A web server refers to the software that helps to deliver web content that can be accessed either through the Internet or through an intranet. The primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The communication between client and server takes place using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The most common use of web servers is to host websites, but there are other uses such as gaming, data storage, running enterprise applications, handling email, FTP, etc.