Help looping through page items

Hello,
I'm new to InDesign scripting and I need a way to programmatically loop through the items on a page of a document and get all of the text frame IDs (Using javascript). Once I find a match of the text frame I am looking for, I will need to update its contents. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
- Lloyd

Hey!
var myTextFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
var myTextFramesNo = myTextFrames.length;
Now myTextFramesNo holds number of text frames in document and myTextFrames holds text frame objects. Now you can run through text frames and set contents for each of them like this:
myTextFrames[0].contents = "My Frame Contents";
That's for start
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