Getting information from some site via Basic IDE – possible? How?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Is it possible with the OpenOffice.org BASIC IDE to access a web site,
login, copy some text to the clipboard, and then logout?
Any hints?


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

Wow Johnny, you sure do get around :-)

Post by Johnny Rosenberg
Is it possible with the OpenOffice.org BASIC IDE to access a web site,
login, copy some text to the clipboard, and then logout?
Any hints?

I have seen examples using Calc using tricks similar to these:

http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2004/11/webquery_scrapi.html
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=4103

In these examples, there was no need to login. The important point is
that they simply loaded the page. I am not aware of a simple way to get
the web contents without loading it into a document.

My fear is that the login step will fail unless you are able to pass the
credentials as part of the initial http request.

I expect that the rest of the task is easy if you can solve the first part.

Interested in seeing any solutions that you find or create.

Post by Johnny Rosenberg
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Johnny Rosenberg
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[Andor E]

Not that I am aware of. The Basic IDE is woefully oldfashioned .

Greetings

eymux

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Johnny Rosenberg

Post by Johnny Rosenberg
Is it possible with the OpenOffice.org BASIC IDE to access a web site,
login, copy some text to the clipboard, and then logout?
Any hints?
Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg
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[Fernand Vanrie]

Andor,

Yes you can do it , using the "connection provider"or using the UCB".
Go to the OpenOffice unofficial forum and try "http" or "https" and you
will find some code you can use to acces a website adress.
Gave also look a some Translater extentions, they use Google Translate
and send and get back translated strings from Google

Greetz

Fernand

Post by Andor E
Not that I am aware of. The Basic IDE is woefully oldfashioned .
Greetings
eymux
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Johnny Rosenberg

Post by Johnny Rosenberg
Is it possible with the OpenOffice.org BASIC IDE to access a web site,
login, copy some text to the clipboard, and then logout?
Any hints?
Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
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[Johnny Rosenberg]

Post by Fernand Vanrie
Andor,
Yes you can do it , using the "connection provider"or using the UCB".
Go to the OpenOffice unofficial forum and try "http" or "https" and you will
find some code you can use to acces a website adress.
Gave also look a some Translater extentions, they use Google Translate and
send and get back translated  strings from Google
Greetz
Fernand

Post by Andor E
Not that I am aware of. The Basic IDE is woefully oldfashioned .
Greetings
eymux
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Johnny Rosenberg

Post by Johnny Rosenberg
Is it possible with the OpenOffice.org BASIC IDE to access a web site,
login, copy some text to the clipboard, and then logout?
Any hints?
Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

Thanks for all information and links. I'm not a (great) programmer so
I'm not sure I will fix this, but I will certainly try. It will take
some time though, since I have a lot of other things that also need to
be done…
☺

Best regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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