[PD] Retrieving Text form a URL | Webpage

star morin shift8 at digitrash.com
Fri Apr 25 19:56:53 CEST 2008


you can also use the language of your choice that supports OSC and parse
the page externally.

i've attached a perl example w/ a super simple pd patch.

-s

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 06:14 -0700, mark edward grimm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Didn't find any results on search...
> 
> Do we know a way to retrieve/grab Text from a
> webpage/url in PD...
> 
> ... then write it to a textfile maybe? or insert into
> a list.
> 
> Thanks!
> mark
> 
> 
> 
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#N canvas 632 124 450 300 10;
#X obj 217 38 dumpOSC 1025;
#X obj 263 144 print url:;
#X obj 179 144 print text:;
#X obj 215 70 route /text /url;
#X obj 15 27 load me first;
#X connect 0 0 3 0;
#X connect 3 0 2 0;
#X connect 3 1 1 0;
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