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timmy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Get URL data and return vars. Apr 19th, 2010, 2:49am   Hi all! Im looking for a way to read this URL http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?position=true&ip=12.215.42.19 And return the value's as a var. (12.215.42.19 is also a given var.) Any thoughts?

JohnG Ex Member

Re: Get URL data and return vars. Reply #1 - Apr 19th, 2010, 3:09am   You'll have to parse the data yourself, but you can get it all into a String by: Code: String ip="12.215.42.19"; String[] data=loadStrings("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?position=true&ip="+ip); //will give an array of strings, one per line e.g. /* data[0]="Country: UNITED STATES (US)" data[1]="City: Sugar Grove, IL" data[2]="" data[3]="Latitude: 41.7696" data[4]="Longitude: -88.4588" data[5]="IP: 12.215.42.19" */

timmy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: Get URL data and return vars. Reply #2 - Apr 19th, 2010, 3:33am   Holy **** thats sweet! thank you so much!! I saw a java script to do the same but that was a damn long code ^^ One more thing, how do I split this string on data[0] at ":" (semicolon)

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Get URL data and return vars. Reply #3 - Apr 19th, 2010, 5:50am   : is a colon, not a semicolon. And you split strings by using... split()!