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I will still reply to this, just to say I read and understood most of it, I will still get back to you. Thanks so much!

URL Pattern: a-z, 0-9, multiple - (dash), one _ (underscore) / then a forward slash, a-z, 0-9, multiple - (dash), multiple _ (underscore)/ Examples: abz38-gloom-sea/zbca927-ghsj4-fdj549s-8593/ daisY/dasiy-goes-to-paris/ daisy_bumblebee/dasiy-goes-to-paris48275/ Daisy-bumblebee/dasiy-Goes-to-PARis48275/ Chess_Masterr_97/master-Looses-his-95728game/ 9573_hfn462hd/85bfha_jhhws_858BCH_hf84_hfe/ Since basically from looking at the examples I have given above the number of possible matches is much much greater than the number of exclusions I have to make I should not try to from front to back but from back to front. Instead of ruling in all the masses of URLs that fit the pattern I can simply, like you, M23, suggested, filter out the few, but still overseable URLs that I don't want. The OR for the reg exp will come in very handy. I thought I need to find some sort of smallest common ground for all the ones I want ruled out but this OR really came in damn handy. I am taking the URL from the browser windows with alt-d and ctrl-c, then store that as a variable and then check that variable against the URL pattern I like to have. So your for loop and the stringregexp nicely filter out the URLs I don't want. I am not sure if I will need an array since I am taking the URL variable from the open tab but it surly is a nice way of doing it. Thanks for your continuous help and support here. This is really nice of you and the rest of the cool crew members here. Last night I dreamt about strings and regex, it was a strange numbers and letters, dream, haha. So yeah, I guess I am actually quite getting into this stuff faster than I ever go into anything else perhaps even.. Again thanks for your contribution to my problems or coding challenges. Thanks! I can really see how regular expressions are quite the magic, making code slim and fast, avoiding many conditional statements.

songersoft, thanks so much for your lengthy reply, help and code! I have currently focused on Firefox only since I wanted to get the basic script done and then start adding more options, gui etc once I have the basic construct. I hope that is good programming architecture (is it???) as I have no clue about it and just think about it like building a house, first the cellar and walls, then the windows and carpets. I had a look at your post yesterday but it did not make much sense to me then. However this has rapidly changed. From looking at your script and having spent days in front of the screen with AutoIt, it starts to make sense, a lot of sense even. At the moment I am fine with it I think, I only need to read up on the variables you describe. $macro for example. Are those system wide variables or do I change those at will in my code as long as the meanings/semantics are kept? Also does not make so much sense to me, meaning I don't understand it quite now, this however will change soon, no worries. So I will be sure to use and edit this for my script, is it ok to come back to you once I have the basics done and working? Any ways, thanks, this is really appreciated. Are there some good sections on how to design/build (good programming sequence I mean) AutoIt scripts perhaps, somehow I am worried about that, kinda would like to get it done half right from the beginning.

PCRE Toolkit is getting me quite far however I have been trying all day but somehow here I am stuck. Part of the script I am writing verifies if the user is on the right URL of a site, if not the script repeats until the right URL pattern is matched. So how can I for example rule out the following locations on the site? about/ contact/ faq/ popular/ tutorials/ ?order= search/ On the other hand how can I allow locations like these? URL pattern: a-z, 0-9, multiple - (dash), one _ (underscore) / then a forward slash, a-z, 0-9, multiple - (dash), multiple _ (underscore)/ This is a string and to understand it better I have given the possibilities in characters, letters and numbers. Note the letters and numbers don't necessarily need to come up on the order written but the URLs do not start with dashes or underscores, if that helps. The way I though this could be done, but that is probably not such a nice way, is to include the Select...Case...EndSelect function, each case with the above "rule out" locations selected with StringRexExp for example. I find it quite hard to to find the smallest common letter or character from the above "rule out" list. How can I practise that? With PCRE Toolkit or simply somehow get it done by experimenting? Again any help is much appreciated.

Excellent, thanks so much!

Thanks so much, this is freaking awesome. Would you have links to good tutorials about RegEx or perhaps an AutoIt online RegEx tester? How to learn this stuff with AutoIt? I found this and this but think the later is about RegEx in general and not about RegEx with AutoIt. Any good suggestions? Again, thanks so much for your fast, correct and very helpful response!

Given is any URL starting with http:// and ending with /. I know how to get the URL and put it in memory or as a variable but how do I find certain parts in the URL and replace it with a given string? What functions do I need to use for this please? Example: In URL http://designenvy.aiga.org/solar-bikini-andrew-schneider/ I want to replace designenvy.aiga.org with XYZ.com and the last / of the URL with .html. Thanks for any help towards this, linking me to am example would be perfect, linking me to a good tutorial(s) on this would even be more appreciated. Thanks so much, starting to really enjoy AutoIt partly thanks to the great support for new users in the forum.

If WinExists("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_0]") Then WinActivate("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_0]") EndIf Sleep(500) Send ("!d") Send ("^c") $link = ClipGet () MsgBox(0, "Chrome current open tab URL", $link) Tried with Chrome_WidgetWin_0, Chrome_AutocompleteEditView and Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND, all don't seem to pick up the script. Does not seem to work for Chrome at all. Any suggestions? Edit: Same with Opera ( OperaWindowClass ). Any ideas?

In some cases the script will take the clipboard's previous content, at least this has happened to me. So I tried to change it to empty the clipboard before it copies new content to it but that did only always give me an empty clipboard result, as if the ctrl+c command was skipped. Do you know why? ClipPut ("") If WinExists("[CLASS:MozillaWindowClass]") Then WinActivate("[CLASS:MozillaWindowClass]") ElseIf WinExists("[CLASS:IEFrame]") Then WinActivate("[CLASS:IEFrame]") EndIf Sleep(100) send ("!d") send ("^c") $link = ClipGet() MsgBox(0, "", $link) Note FF was running during the test runs, IE not.

Ok, I am figuring this out, currently doing a chain of if else commands to first of all check for the various browsers availability. Thanks again for the help. This is much appreciated!

Oh and what about checking other browsers, like Opera, Chrome and Safari? Are there particular classes for that too? Can that be done with the Window Information Tool? So that basically it checks pretty much all of the widely available browser's URL in sequence, so that the script can be used with not just one browser. Is alt+d selecting the address bar in all browsers the same?

flag = 0 (default), Text contains special characters like + and ! to indicate SHIFT and ALT key-presses. flag = 1, keys are sent raw. Thanks so much!

sleepydvdr, what do you do with !d, do you send the keystroke ctrl+d, bookmarking the page? Similar I can image that ^c copies the selected link, is that right? Where can I read up on keystrokes and the ! and ^ in front of the letters, are those operators or where can I find out more about them? Also, just read this thread here, how would I use ControlGetText with FF. Please if you can and have a few other forum links on this or some tutorials, that would be highly appreciated, I like to learn this! Thanks. edena, I have no idea what you mean with "cookie behaviour".

Thanks for your fast response! This looks like I can understand it. So it is ClipGet that actually gets me there and with $link you define the variable "link", i.e. meaning the browser's current address bar URL in it. Side question: All of this information/data/variables is stored in the system memory or in the browser cache or in the ram or where exactly please? I am trying to think of it in a way, sort of thinking in pictures, so if I find a picture that can make me understand the process I can understand the whole part of coding better, I am sort of coming from the creative side and often think in pictures.

I am making some slow process with the AutoIt tutorials and examples. Looking through the online documentation I was wondering if there is a function or something else that can read the current URL from the current open browser window and store that string as data to work with as a variable or simply store it in a text file. If it cannot be done with the current open browser window of any browser then I would just like to limit this function to Firefox of course. Basically I need to know how to get URLs from the browser and later on I will be needing to know how to get and store data from the corresponding websites in a table or text file or in a temp file or temp location (ram? cache? where is such data actually shortly stored in AutoIt or on the computer??)

SmOke_N, thanks so much for your reply and sorry for not replying earlier. I am still on the Wiki and trying to make sense of what you posted. I am still a beginner. As soon as I have a better idea of what your code does (I assume it perfectly does what I actually want to achieve) I will post more here. It seems that with the re-design of the site's player most of the other downloaders have started to fail so creating a little tool for this purpose is high priority for me, though, given that I am a beginner this might still take some time. Oh well. I will surly learn a lot and that is great! Thanks for your help!

Dear AutoIt community, I am interested in learning to write a script that will extract and list a set of specific URLs from a text file, from the clipboard or directly from a website link after checking if the URLs in the text file, clipboard or website/source are dead or alive. I have found this thread, Text Extraction / Regular Expressions Help and that helped a little but I am not sure where to start really. Here is an example that might help you understand better. Link: http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/bond694/queen-absolute-greatest-80s.json The part of the content from above link I am interested in is this: "audio_formats": { "m4a": { "64": [ "http://stream2.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream3.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream4.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream1.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a" ] }, "mp3": [ "http://stream2.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/originals/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.mp3", "http://stream3.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/originals/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.mp3", "http://stream4.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/originals/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.mp3", "http://stream1.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/originals/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.mp3" ], "aac": { "24": [ "http://stream2.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/aac/24/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.aac", "http://stream3.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/aac/24/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.aac", "http://stream4.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/aac/24/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.aac", "http://stream1.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/aac/24/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.aac" ], "64": [ "http://stream2.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream3.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream4.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a", "http://stream1.mxcdn.com/cloudcasts/m4a/64/1/c/8/a/b1b7-8318-4034-aa64-b747cdf6b183.m4a" ] } Those are the locations at which media files are stored in different file formats. The thing is that not all locations will return valid/alive results. Only some will return the media file while others will return a 404 page. So how can check with AutoIt if a link is alive or dead? Ideally it would be excellent if instead of going to the ***.json link, users can simply input the original link, in this case http://www.mixcloud.com/bond694/queen-absolute-greatest-80s/and then the script would go to the related .json page, check the "audio_formats" links for them being alive or dead and finally list only the valid links. If someone else is interested in this project it would be fantastic if we could collaborate on this. I am not seeking a pro but rather a beginner or intermediate coder to collaborate with and perhaps a couple of pros (if there is interest) that can sort of guide the project with reading and tutorial suggestions or help out when getting stuck with something. So basically if there are some flaws in my idea/concept or there is something in it that cannot be done with AutoIt I would very much appreciate if someone would let me know before I embark on this journey. I know that there are a lot of similar scripts for this task out there but none of them succeed to take the hurdle of checking if the links are alive or dead, at least based on my research. So where do I start? Any help is much appreciated and please let me stress that I am very willing to learn and understand what I am actually scripting instead of given bits and pieces or code that I glue together. So I am not asking you pros to do the work, not at all, some simple (or perhaps later more advanced) guidance is all I seek at this moment. Thanks.

Hello Smartee, thanks for your reply. I had another deeper look and it turns out that the original software that the mod is made for has some sort of internal memory that triggers the default "My Music" path on certain actions, like if "copy" etc. is selected from the main menu. Because of that the changes in the scripts do not affect the end result with regards to the temporary folder location. Basically values are being passed between the original software and the mod I think and as the original software is not open source there is no way for me to make changes to it that then would also work with the scripts. However there is a way of setting another configuration file to the directory the user likes, this has to be done manually though, but just once before starting the actual ripping and encoding process.

Dear AutoIt User Community, I am Sam and this is my first post here. I hope to learn lots from AutoIt. I have just started using AutoIt and love it, so far I have just been doing a little bit of Java programming alongside a lot of HTML, CSS and JS programming. Basically I am not a noob to computers but totally new to AutoIt. I have an old box with XP SP2 on it and use it quite happily. Anything else you like to know, ask me. A little while ago I started using a AutoIt script that rips and encodes CDs to various file formats and then saves them to a chosen location. However the temporary directory for the ripped files is always the system default "My Music" folder. I would like to be able to change this location to either C:\ or C:\Temporary Music\ or even D:\Music. I think the line in the script that sets the default temporary folder location is this: Global $g_myMusicDir = RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "My Music") I have tried simply changing this to another location by doing this: Global $g_myMusicDir = "D:\Music" but the change does not have any effect on the script at all and the temporary files are saved in the XP default "My Music" folder. Now of course I can change the default location of that on XP with Tweak UI XP Powertoy but I don't want to do that, I prefer to change the script to my liking instead of the computer it works on. How can this be done? Can someone please point me in the right direction as to "where to look" or "where to find the information"? I have had a look at the documentation but am too new to make use of it for this particular purpose I find. I would kind of prefer to learn about this before I go through all the tutorials and read all of the documentation. Basically I am not asking for the solution, but if someone has it or can help me find it, that of course would be very much appreciated. I have also been in touch with the dev of the script but unfortunately he does not reply to my PMs and seems to be quite busy otherwise. The whole program consists of several .au3 files but the above line of code only shows up in two of them. So I think perhaps changing those two lines of code accordingly in those two .au3 files will actually enable me to have the temporary files in a folder of my choice. What do you think? Can this be done and it is easy or will I need in depth knowledge of AutoIt and perhaps other languages to accomplish this task? Thanks for any help or tips on this. Much appreciated. Sam