Hi Again: So you can download a web page and programmatically click an on click or link from within your script directly?
Doesn't this require a active DOM Object. I was just thinking about this operation and the possibility of using JavaScript with some way to access the active DOM and if this is even possible but perhaps it is using the WE DOM Objects, not sure. The problem would seem to be that while in Internet Explorer I still have to find the words that don't read as links and yet make them clickable if they are set up as links using JavaScript by the Website. In vb.net I could create an instance of InternetExplorer, parse the source code in the active DOM and programmatically click the desired object I think but am not sure how this might be done in WE Scripting Model. Perhaps there is a way to work with the active DOM using an instance of the DOM and some WE Objects, if so let me know if you have done anything along these lines. I would prefer to avoid c++ if possible but am not against using JavaScript at all. But, is this then outside the scope of a VBScript based app? Rick USA From: Rick Thomas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 8:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Bruce, RSS Feeds As Option Hi Bruce: One method I have used to pick up dynamic news was to use the RSS Feeds provided by some sites. You can access the page, use xml to process the feeds by displaying the standard feed subjects in a listbox and then either linking to the news item or downloading it, if necessary - usually the content is provided in the feed so you don't have to download anything but can display the content in a listbox as the user arrows up and down the news item titles in the listbox. It has been some time so I forget the exact technical requirements to do this but I have done it a few times and it is allot cleaner than scraping many pages and how news is usually provided to application programs and client Websites. Just a heads up for future research and expanding the possibilities and possibilities are usually good. Rick USA
