[PD] httpget: fun with tcpclient and pdstring
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Wed Mar 4 16:42:38 CET 2009
On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Martin Peach wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I made [httpget] for fetching webpages into pd:
>
>
> That's nice. Now we need some html parsing objects so the pages go
> into the patch and not the pd window. It works well if the received
> pages are loaded into a table. I made tabfind to search a table for
> a string. Tables seem more efficient than lists and less volatile.
Any ideas on how to approach the HTML parsing? It seems like using an
xml-based parsing library would be the way to do that. There is detox
in jasch_lib, but I don't know the state of it.
.hc
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