How to read text from a web page

I want to read text from a web page. Can any body tell me how to do it.

Ok i tell you detail. visit the site " http://seriouswheels.com/" you will a index from A to Z which are basically car name index i want to read each page get car name and its model and store it in data base. I you can provide me the code i will be very thankful.

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I did a COPY of some text from a web page, and then did a PASTE into notepad.exe (Windows). The text from each line was duplicated -- on the line! Instead of "Fred", it became "Fred Fred".

I just recently installed Firefox for the first time. It seems nice and quick. The version is reported as: "10.0.1".
I wanted to save some text from a web page, so navigated to that page, selected the text, and pressed the Control-C combination to COPY the selected text to the buffer. For example, the text I selected looked something like this:
Harry
Ron
Hermione
Hagrid
Albus
NOTE: Each line of text has a small icon to the left of the text.
It is not reasonable to COPY and PASTE each line individually, as there can be hundreds of lines of data. I recall, however, that
doing a COPY and PASTE on this data into Microsoft's Excel will produce cells which have the icons included in the cell, but unfortunately one cannot can't get rid of them! At least I've never found a way to remove them, but that's another issue. :)
Once I'd done the COPY operation I switched to a Notepad window and did a PASTE operation. To my surprise, the text from each line was duplicated. It looked like this:
Harry Harry
Ron Ron
Hermione Hermione
Hagrid Hagrid
Albus Albus
Thinking that there might be something unusual about the web page I looked at the source, but it appeared "normal" -- that is, as expected.
Note: I have done this operation several times before, and have never seen this occur before.
Note: In the actual data some of the lines have quoted text in them. Curiously there is weird behavior on these lines. In some cases the entire line is shown only once. (These occur at the top of the line, and the quoted text is at the beginning of the name.)
When quoted text appears "later" in the name, in some cases the quoted text is duplicated, and in other cases the quoted text is missing altogether! I have also noticed an error with the quoted text, and so will be reporting that to the web site which generates the HTML.
Note that each line of "text" is "anchor text", so if I click on a name the browser navigates to a page for that name.
I believe that the problem is that the COPY operating in Firefox is not simply copying the visible text, but also the ALT=
Below is a sample of what the source HTML looks like:
<a class="lnk" target="_blank" href="http://details.aspx?id=Harry">
<img width="16" height="16" alt="Harry" class="tb_icon" src="http://.../Harry.gif"/>
<span>Harry</span></a>
<br/>
(Because of the true length of the lines in the source HTML, I have stripped out the actual URL of the site.)
To make sure I wasn't imaging this difference I repeated the process within Internet Explorer. In that browser I did not get duplicated data.

Try:
*Extended Copy Menu (fix version): https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/extended-copy-menu-fix-vers/

How can I use Automator or AppleScript to get text from a web page and paste it in execl?

I don't know how to make scripts or complexed automator workflows... that's why I'm asking.
I'm trying to make a simple app or script to ask me what text to extract from a web page, like name, address and phone number of a web page and paste each one of these data in the righ cell of excel.
I was thinking to promt a request from automator or an applescript to ask me which text to extract from the page or to look throught the HTML of the page to search for specific html tags, from which extracting text and then importing it, or paste it to the specified execl cell. Name in the name cell, address in the address cell and so on.
Can somebody help me to make this script?
If you know an alternative, like a software that already do this or another language to use, please tell.

Try holding down the alt key as you mark the text to be copied. You can then copy columns to table text.

How do I copy text from a web page in Safari?

I've searched up and down and can't find the answer to this simple question.
There is a UI element that I want to copy to the clipboard and then paste into Excel. The UI element is:
static text of group 104 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window "Account Summary"
The contents of this static text on the web page is "$1,000.00"
How can I copy this to the clipboard?
I've tried:
select static text of group 104 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window "Account Summary"
keystroke "c" using command down
keystroke "l" using command down
keystroke "v" using command down
but it doesn't work. "Select" doesn't actually seem to select anything. However, when I run this from within Script Editor, in the Results Window I get:
{static text "$1000.00" of group 104 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window "Account Summary" of application process "Safari" of application "System Events"}
... I'm confused as to what this is telling me. All I want is to copy this value to the clipboard. Any suggestions???
Thanks,
Jeff

Try this:
set the clipboard to item 1 of (get name of (static text of group 104 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window "Account Summary" of application process "Safari"))
(10906)

Link to specific text from another web page

Hello all
Is is possible to link from one page to a specific piece of
text in another web page in the same site? I have tried named
anchor, hyperlink, etc but it just goes to the page rather than the
text. I don't know if I am attempting the impossible. Can you help?
Thank v much.

> This also has a css rule so this 9pt thing is left over
from copy and
> pasting
> from Word. I have it cleaned up as you suggested but I
still have:
> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:9.0pt; is
there way of avoiding
> this?
It depends on your settings for how you copy/paste. See your
PREFERENCES
for those. I don't get such things because my settings are
'tight' in that
they are restrictive to what stying is carried into the page.
> How I do this in a nav bar?
Change this -
.nav {
font: bold normal 14px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-transform: none;
color: #003300;
font-weight: bold;
a.nav:link {
font: normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-transform: none;
color: #003300;
text-decoration: none;
a.nav:visited {
font: normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-transform: none;
color: #003300;
text-decoration: none;
to this -
.nav {
text-align:center;
.nav a {
font: bold normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #030;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration:none;
margin-right:35px;
and then change this -
<div align="center"><a href="index.html"
class="nav">Home</a>       <span
class="nav">About
Us</span>      <a
href="impact_HE.html" class="nav">Impact of HE
Proposal</a>      <a
href="purpose_ED.html"
class="nav">The Purpose of
ED</a>      <a
href="procedures.html"
class="nav">Procedures </a>     <a
href="what_can_we_do.html" class="nav">What Can We
Do?</a></div>
to this -
<div class="nav"><a
href="index.html">Home</a><a
href="about_us.html">About
Us</a><a href="impact_HE.html">Impact of HE
Proposal</a><a
href="purpose_ED.html">The Purpose of ED</a><a
href="procedures.html">Procedures</a><a
href="what_can_we_do.html">What Can
We Do?</a></div>
But an even better way would be to make the menu an unordered
list, like
this -
<ul>
<li><a
href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="about_us.html">About
Us</a></li>
<li><a href="impact_HE.html">Impact of HE
Proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="purpose_ED.html">The Purpose of
ED</a></li>
<li><a
href="procedures.html">Procedures</a></li>
<li><a href="what_can_we_do.html">What Can We
Do?</a></li>
</ul>
And use this CSS -
.nav {
text-align:center;
.nav ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden;
.nav li {
float:left;
width:150px;
margin-right:5px;
border-right:1px solid green;
.nav a {
font: bold normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #030;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration:none;
If you want to make the current page look like it doesn't
have a link, then
do this -
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html"
id="home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="about_us.html" id="about">About
Us</a></li>
<li><a href="impact_HE.html" id="impact">Impact
of HE Proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="purpose_ED.html" id="purpose">The
Purpose of ED</a></li>
<li><a href="procedures.html"
id="procedure">Procedures</a></li>
<li><a href="what_can_we_do.html" id="what">What
Can We Do?</a></li>
</ul>
and add this to each page (use the proper ID) -
a#about {
cursor:default;
/* any other styles you want to make the current page show
> I am being a complete idiot today (maybe it's because
it's Sunday) Can you
> talk me through this.
Make the changes manually in code view.
If you are getting the idea that you will need to ramp your
HTML and CSS
skills to do this stuff, you are right on target!
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> Dear Murrray
> Thank you very much for your comments.
>
> Can I ask you the following:
> 1. p.MsoNormal {
> Using Microsoft Word to build an HTML page is not
advisable. Use DW only
> or
> clean up the Word markup
>
> This also has a css rule so this 9pt thing is left over
from copy and
> pasting
> from Word. I have it cleaned up as you suggested but I
still have:
> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:9.0pt; is
there way of avoiding
> this?
>
> 2.
       <span
class
> Using non-breaking spaces as a layout tool is not
advisable. Use CSS
> margins/padding instead..
>
>
> 3. This is not a named anchor point. It is not even a
link. For that you
> would need -
> <p style="font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:small; "
> id="BDBC">What we have said to
B&DBC</p>
>
> I am being a complete idiot today (maybe it's because
it's Sunday) Can you
> talk me through this.
>
> Thank you very much for your time. Much appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>

How to retrieve data from a web page through php scripts..........

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suppose we have a url.........
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xyz 10
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xyz2 30 etc...
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value of xyz , xyz1 n xyz2 should be retrived and further inserted into database.......
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Should be nice..
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How to center Text Box on Web Page? -- Web dev with Word 2013

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There are many tools but they want to use Word 2013.
Actually have it working by saving the Word 2013 files as web pages... like index.htm, about.htm, etc.
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Extracting text from a web page

I want to extract information about livestock from a certain web page, and add these data to a database.
The web page in question allows me to enter an animal's ID number, and then it displays various data about that individual animal. The format of the page is always the same, but the data vary depending on the particular ID/animal.
What I'm hoping for is a way to quickly extract information about the current animal (date of birth, color, breeding status, etc.) from the open page, and add these to my database.
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Eric

Here's a very rough, untested way to do it:
(I'm at work and not on a Mac..so..Milage May Vary)
It would be run as script.pl -i input -o output
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oh and the input would be a list of valid web page addresses
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--bEGIN cODE---
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use LPW::Simple;
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On a Web page that contains some light-colored text (such as the Apple Store MacBook models page <http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm= browse&node=home/shop_mac/family/macbook&sf=wHF2F2PHCCCX72KDY>), is it possible to have the light gray text print darker? When I print such pages on my color laser printer, that gray text is almost too faint to see. Thanks for any pointers.

Welcome to the Forums!
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How to read data from Analysis web Item.

Hi,
We are currently on BI 7 SP 16 Java 16,
I am trying to present data from 10 reports on to one single page, so for that i want to read data from the Analysis item, and present it on one page.
How do i read data and write it on to a page, i know we have to use java script for this , but i am not sure how to use the script. Can any one please help me on how to write the code if possible please give me the code or any suggestions.
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Kumar

Hello,
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Please help me ...

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I'm opening a page with a video on it and for some reason, IE9 insists on opening the page so that the bottom of the video is in line with the bottom of the IE9 browser window.
It's like IE doesn't want to cut off the lower part of the video.
FF is not having this problem and opens pages with videos as it should; at the top.
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k

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I am writing Search engine code using servlets. I want to copy links from different search engines. plz help me.

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I need to know how to insert text into a webpage, like google, search, and then get the result.
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What do you mean by insert into web page? Like
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do this?
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question, that you might want to just look at the url
of the page. For example search on google and you
will see the text entered into the search field
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