[PD] Retrieving Text form a URL | Webpage

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sat Apr 26 00:03:07 CEST 2008


Hopefully, mrpeach himself will chime in, there are rumors he's got a  
HTTP running that's built-in Pd.

.hc

On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:40 AM, mark edward grimm wrote:

> Beautiful! Thanks so much!
>
> i'll search that archives for that. i looked at
> mr.peach but must have overlooked the help patch so
> thanks for the pointer!
>
> mark
>
>
> --- IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> you don't have to use Pd, you could just do
>> "wget [URL] > myfile.txt"
>>
>> you can run this from within Pd (using [shell]) or
>> create a small server
>> that communicates with Pd using netsend/netreceive
>> (or whatever you
>> prefer). i have posted examples on how to the latter
>> on this list before
>> (so see the archives).
>> i have used this method extensively to display
>> websites within Pd (e.g.
>> for http://umlaeute.mur.at/projects/surf-the-net)
>>
>>
>> an alternative method is to use the [tcpclient]
>> object of mrpeach; the
>> help-patch even shows how to access a website.
>>
>>
>> fgmasdr
>> IOhannes
>>
>
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