cuould do the same with curl, +curl supports other protocols, not just http ..and it has libcurl, which could proly be ported as an external so we'd have "pd<->web" communication going on ..that'd be great for particular types of purposes!
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:15:14PM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig 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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