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May 20, 2011 2:59 PM

Hello Everyone!

 

Is it possible to grab the contents of a webpage and store the value into a variable?  We have a script that generates one line of text for a correlating inDesign file on our webserver.  Rather than having to our website and copy/paste the line into their inDesign file, it would be wonderful to automate this task by being able to have a script fetch this line.  Is there any documentation explaining a method to grab the contents of a file (in my case a webpage) or does anyone know how to accomplish something like this?

 

Thanks in advance!

295 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Ten A, May 23, 2011 2:55 AM
 
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  • John Hawkinson
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    1. John Hawkinson,
    May 21, 2011 1:04 AM   in reply to TheNewspaperPlace
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    Yes. See Chapter 6 of the Javascript Tools Guide, which has this example:

     

    reply = "";
conn = new Socket;
// access Adobe’s home page
if (conn.open ("www.adobe.com:80")) {
  // send a HTTP GET request
  conn.write ("GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n");
  // and read the server’s reply
  reply = conn.read(999999);
  conn.close();
}

     

    [ In CS3 there was an Http object, but you couldn't use it from InDesign anyhow, only Bridge. Anyone know what happened to that? ]

     
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  • Ten A
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    2. Ten A,
    May 23, 2011 2:36 AM   in reply to John Hawkinson
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    I don't know what happend.

    But prevoiuse script work fine in my Indesign CS3 CS4 and CS5 (OSX10.6.6).

     

    Ten.

     
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    3. John Hawkinson,
    May 23, 2011 2:40 AM   in reply to Ten A
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    Sorry, are you the same person as the original poster?

     

    Are you saying it doesn't work in CS5.5, or just that you don't know where the Http object went?

    The Http object was never present for InDesign, to the best of my knowledge.

     
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    4. Ten A,
    May 23, 2011 2:55 AM   in reply to John Hawkinson
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    I'm not orign poster.
    Sorry to my self-deceived. As you say, "Http Object" nolonger in Indesign. So we use connecting network, use Socket Object from CS3.

     

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