How to get the content of a <spam>Content</spam>?

[Kinhow]

Hi, I'm trying to use the IE.au3 to get this content but I'm not sure how to do this.

Is there a way of doing this using XPath or maybe any other smarter way than reading the _IEBodyReadText and cutting the string?

[water]

You are talking about <span>, right

You can access items by ID or name using _IEGetObjById or _IEGetObjByName if there is an ID or name.

[Kinhow]

Yeah, I meant spaN hehe.

But the thing is that they don't have an ID or NAME.

How can I do that?

[water]

Then I would use something like this:

$sHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE_object)
$asSPAN = StringSplit($sHTML, "<span>", 1)

You get an array with a <Span> in each element. Strip off the "</span>" from the end of each element. That's it.

Edited May 28, 2012 by water

[Kinhow]

well, that the way I didnt want to do... because its an specific span in the middle of HTML.

XPath would do the job... but I dont knwo if there is a way to do this with XPath in IE.au3

[Melba23]

Kinhow,

You might be able to do it with a RegEx - can you show us an example of the Html and the specific <span> you wish to extract?

M23

[Kinhow]

There you go, I want to make a few fake registrations on my website then I found this generator here:

http://fakenamegenerator.com/advanced.php

I wanted to go to the span of the first name, but I want also the birthday info, username etc.

[Skitty]

There you go, I want to make a few fake registrations on my website then I found this generator here:

http://fakenamegenerator.com/advanced.php

I wanted to go to the span of the first name, but I want also the birthday info, username etc.

Something tells me you're really after the email system, it's ok. You can tell us. We don't bite.

[Kinhow]

Something tells me you're really after the email system, it's ok. You can tell us. We don't bite.

haha no it's not, its really the random generated info that I am after.

Btw mailinator.com is way better than this one

[xanathos]

Get the page source code with Inetread convert it to string using BinaryToString, then find your span id by using StringInStr (given-name in your case) then from that you can use StringTrimLeft or other that would suit your needs.

Edited May 29, 2012 by xanathos

[Kinhow]

Get the page source code with Inetread convert it to string using BinaryToString, then find your span id by using StringInStr (given-name in your case) then from that you can use StringTrimLeft or other that would suit your needs.

I'm not sure if you read the part where I ask if there is some other way than this one.

[water]

You have been offered different solutions for your problem but you don't want to accept them. Why?

It looks like there is no XPath based solution available.

I would stick with the solutions that work.

[Skitty]

I was board and decided to do it with my all time favorite UDF, winhttp. SO you'll need to download that before running this.

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#include <Array.au3>
#include ".incWinHttp.au3"
$HTML =  _GetSource("http://fakenamegenerator.com/advanced.php")
If @error Then ConsoleWrite("@Error: " & @error & @CR & _
            "@Extended: " & @extended & @CR & _
            "Return: "&$HTML&@CR)
$Stuff = StringRegExp($HTML,"(?i)<spanb[^>]*>(.*?)</span>",3)
_ArrayDisplay($stuff)
$NAme = StringRegExp(StringStripCR($HTML),'<span class="given-name">(.*?)</span> <span class="additional-name">(.*?)</span> <span class="family-name">(.*?)</span>',3)
If Not @error Then MsgBox(0,"Name",$NAme[0]&" "&$NAme[1]&" "&$NAme[2])

Func _GetSource($url, $Hwnd = '', $Agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)')
    Local $Error, $CloseHwnd
    Local $aUrl = _WinHttpCrackUrl($url)
    If @error Then Return SetError(1, @error, False)
    If Not $Hwnd Then
        $CloseHwnd = 1
        $Hwnd = _WinHttpOpen($Agent)
        If @error Then Return SetError(2, @error, False)
        _WinHttpSetTimeouts($Hwnd, 0, 10000, 8000, 5000)
    EndIf
    Local $hConnect = _WinHttpConnect($Hwnd, $aUrl[2])
    If @error Then
        $Error = @error
        _WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect)
        If $CloseHwnd Then _WinHttpCloseHandle($Hwnd)
        Return SetError(3, $Error, False)
    EndIf
    Local $hRequest = _WinHttpSimpleSEndRequest($hConnect, Default, $aUrl[6] & $aUrl[7])
    If @error Then
        $Error = @error
        _WinHttpCloseHandle($hRequest)
        _WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect)
        If $CloseHwnd Then _WinHttpCloseHandle($Hwnd)
        Return SetError(4, $Error, False)
    EndIf
    If $hRequest Then
        Local $html = _WinHttpSimpleReadData($hRequest)
        If @error Then
            $Error = @error
            _WinHttpCloseHandle($hRequest)
            _WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect)
            If $CloseHwnd Then _WinHttpCloseHandle($Hwnd)
            Return SetError(5, $Error, False)
        EndIf
    Else
        _WinHttpCloseHandle($hRequest)
        _WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect)
        If $CloseHwnd Then _WinHttpCloseHandle($Hwnd)
        Return SetError(6, 0, False)
    EndIf
    _WinHttpCloseHandle($hRequest)
    _WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect)
    If $CloseHwnd Then _WinHttpCloseHandle($Hwnd)
    Return SetError(0, 0, $html)
EndFunc   ;==>_GetSource

[xanathos]

I'm not sure if you read the part where I ask if there is some other way than this one.

lol, I don't really see what kind of solution you want, you need to read the page using whatever method which involves opening a socket, so I don't get your point at all...

[Kinhow]

You have been offered different solutions for your problem but you don't want to accept them. Why?

It looks like there is no XPath based solution available.

I would stick with the solutions that work.

The solution of getting the string and cut into various substrings is a possible solution, but I am trying to find another one that could be done with less effort. If I wanted to do manually with text substrings I wouldn't come here to ask you guys for help.

For example ApudAngelorum's solution is a good way using regex, that might help a lot.

lol, I don't really see what kind of solution you want, you need to read the page using whatever method which involves opening a socket, so I don't get your point at all...

I am sorry if I was rude but I just wanted to know if there is a POSSIBLE solution using XPath for example, just like someone did with FF.au3, which is not updated.