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softhook
Extract all screen text from HTML document
Sep 14th, 2006, 3:57pm  
Hi there Could somebody help me with a little example on how to extract all the screen text from a webpage. So everything between <p> and <H1> tags etc.

I have tried playing with the ProHTML library but I find it hard to get started.

Thanks very much
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Daniel Shiffman
Re: Extract all screen text from HTML document
Reply #1 - Sep 15th, 2006, 1:27pm  
I don't have an example that uses the proHTML library, however, this is not too difficult to accomplish in java using regular expressions.  The code from this page will work inside Processing (but you may need to make some minor adjustments).

http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/programming-from-a-to-z/regex/

See: http://www.shiffman.net/itp/classes/a2z/week02/HTMLTagRemover.java

Perhaps proHTML is a better way to do it, I keep meaning to play around with that library!

Dan
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softhook
Re: Extract all screen text from HTML document
Reply #2 - Sep 17th, 2006, 10:19am  
Thanks very much.
Having quite a hard time implementing regex in Processing though. Will keep workig on it though. Thanks again
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