Copying text from a URL

[James Graham-Eagle]

I assume this is easy to do if you know how to do it ...

I would like to programatically open a specified URL in a browser, copy the page to the clipboard (ie simulate the Select All and Copy menu options), and then close the browser. Can someone please show me how to do this?

Thanks

[Dave Biggs]

Should be easy to do with:

SHELL ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE {your URL here}", 1)

keybd_event.. (search the forum for examples) to send Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Alt-F4..

CLIPBOARD GET TEXT TO sTemp (PBWin90) - to see what you got

[Walt Thompson]

Hi James;

Here's a primative code snippet that demonstrates that what you want to do is at least possible.

  CLIPBOARD RESET TO test
  SHELL ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE http://www.yahoo.com/", 1)
' Need to add some way to issue Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C programmatically here.
  CLIPBOARD GET ITEM %CF_TEXT TO test
  ?FORMAT$(test)

[Francisco Castanedo]

Take a look at this:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=35655&highlight=Retrieve+WebPage

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=13050&highlight=Retrieve+WebPage