• Registered: 2007-12-14
  • Posts: 17

Topic: Getting HTML from a web page.

Hi,

Im currently writing a widget that uses an RSS feed which contains some data and a link to a web page.

I would like to include the data from the webpage in the widget (parsed down in a HTML textbox) but I'm not sure where I would start in flash/actionscript to connect to the linked site and then store the returned HTML for parsing.

Once I have the HTML the string parsing should be easy.

Could someone give me some pointers please? - Please go easy this is my first attempt at flash smile

Thanks!

James.

  • jvc
  • Busy Chum
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  • Registered: 2007-11-10
  • Posts: 158

Re: Getting HTML from a web page.

you can use XML to load a page if they have an open crossdomain.xml file

var htmlURL:String = "http://www.yourfeedurl.com";
var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.onData = function(data)
{
    trace(data);    
}

xml.load(htmlURL);

if not you will have to proxy it through something that does like Yahoo Pipes:
http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2007/09/19 … okin-good/

  • Registered: 2007-12-14
  • Posts: 17

Re: Getting HTML from a web page.

Hi jvc,

Thanks again for the advice!! 

I have had a look at Yahoo pipes and it looks like it will make my life about ten times easier! Have managed to do what I wanted in no time - what a world of chumby related opportunity!!

All the best,

James.