[PD] Fwd: Re: Targeting specific content with HttpGet

[Martin Peach]

I forgot to reply to the list as well:

On 2011-09-20 15:25, Alvin Google wrote:
>  On 2011-09-20 14:58, Martin Peach wrote:
>>  On 2011-09-20 01:22, Alvin Google wrote:
>>>  I have been interested in using streaming information in a pd patch. I
>>>  have taken a look at the simplewebclient and httpget patches listed
>>>  here
>>>  in the thread, but I can not figure out how to target specific
>>>  tables or
>>>  div class information from a web page.
>>>
>>>  I assume that you have to download the entire page.
>>>  Can you parse for specific information : name of content and it's
>>>  value?
>>>
>>
>>  Yes you get the whole content-length.
>>  You can either operate on a list or a table. I prefer to load
>>  everything into a large table and parse that.
>>  I think pdlua would be ideal for parsing text, but so far I made my
>>  own abstractions from Pd objects to extract numbers from particular
>>  locations in lists. The problem with converting things to symbols is
>>  that the symbol table can get filled with mostly junk symbols.
>>  You can go line by line by scanning for 10, the ASCII line feed
>>  character.
>>
>>  Martin
>>
>  Thanks for your reply Martin.
>  I am not sure how to go about this yet, but it sounds like one has to
>  look through data line by line.
>  Can you look for specific strings on a webpage like the contents of a
>  specific table tag?

[mrpeach/tabfind] can be used to find a string in a table.



>  Maybe there is another way to approach this?
>

There are probably many ways to do it. They are all a bit tedious with
Pd though.
I attach a copy of a patch I use. Maybe it will help.


Martin



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