is there a way to read text from a website without open ie?

idiot · Post by **idiot** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:30 pm

basically was wanting to have a website store ip adresses on a page and then when i run a macro have it detect my ip adress and see if it matches one that i have on a website i have no code and no idea how to do any of this

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:44 pm

If it's a basic web page you should just be able to retrieve it with HTTPRequest. This will retrieve the data to a variable which you can then parse.

HTTPRequest will get more tricky if the page is something you need to log into and cookies are required to track the session.

idiot · Post by **idiot** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:14 pm

ok i get that looked up command very simple but how would i scan my pc with a macro scheduler script like how to get it to look for what my ip adress is?

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:40 pm

Try this UNTESTED script that should work to get the IP of your computer.

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Let>RP_WAIT=1
Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=2
RunProgram>cmd /c ipconfig /all >temp.txt
ReadFile>temp.txt,vTempIP
DeleteFile>temp.txt
Position>IP Address,%vTempIP%,1,vStart
Add>vStart,18
MidStr>%vTempIP%,%vStart%,15,vIP
MessageModal>IP address is %vIP%

(Based on XP PRO, Macro Scheduler 11.1)

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:49 pm

I'm guessing you want the external IP, and not the LAN IP, so this should work:

[code]
Let>HTTP_TIMEOUT=5
HTTPRequest>http://checkip.dyndns.org,,GET,,HTMLResponse
Position>:,HTMLResponse,1,StartPos
Add>StartPos,2
Position>Endpos,1
MidStr>HTMLResponse,StartPos,EndPos,YourIP
MessageModal>YourIP
[/code]

Original discussion here http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... whatismyip

idiot · Post by **idiot** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:29 pm

first one for lan didnt work but second one did this is very cool will help me alot thanks

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:02 am

Here is another one for the external WAN IP:

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HTTPRequest>http://www.ip-adress.com/,temp.txt,GET
ReadFile>temp.txt,vTempIP
Position>My IP address:,%vTempIP%,1,vStart
Add>vStart,15
MidStr>%vTempIP%,%vStart%,15,vIP
StringReplace>%vIP%,<,,vIP
StringReplace>%vIP%,/,,vIP
StringReplace>%vIP%,s,,vIP
StringReplace>%vIP%,p,,vIP
MessageModal>IP address is %vIP%
DeleteFile>temp.txt

First one I submitted for LAN was not tested originally, but it works OK for me now that I can try it.
How does it not work for you? If you cut/paste from forum, did you remove any trailing spaces?