On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:26 +0200, oliver wrote:
Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 13:55 +0200, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
Hello everyone,
What is the easiest way to get the content of a https webpage in pd, for example this one:
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/CYDA.TXT
Is there any patch that can do this around?
also consider using those objects that command line executions:
WINDOWS: [system] (in the "motex" library) LINUX & OSX: [shell] (in the "ggee" library)
you can get them via deken ("Help/Find Externals")
since those objecs are very basic and the syntax can be tricky (PD doesn't allow backslashes for example) my way of using them is to compose/write the command i would type into a shell/terminal into a text file, save it, and then call it from within PD using above objects.
(backslashes or other special characters can be emulated with [list tosymbol], if that fails consider using [binfile] from "mrpeach")
with this method you can pretty much do anything inside a PD patch that you would be doing in a terminal.
Yes, you can, but it is not portable (as it requires different solutions depending on platform) and requires additional filesystem interactions. Using [shell] (or [system] for that matter) has all kinds of side effects, like [shell] searches scripts relative to Pd start location instead of relative to Pd patch. I wouldn't recommend using those.
Roman