Grab text from a web search

[PepsiHog]

I have been for hours trying to get text from an instance of IE. The page contains search results. I want to get the url below a link. I have been trying all of the gettext commands without any success.

The one I have been mainly trying to get results from is GetWindowTextEx.

Here is the scribble I have been playing with.

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let>WinName=Star Trek (2009) - IMDb

IECreate>IE[0]

//IENavigate>IE[0],https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl,res
IENavigate>IE[0],Star Trek (2009) - IMDb,res
IEWait>IE[0]
GetWindowHandle>%WinName%*,WinHan
let>win_usehandle=1
SetFocus>WinHan
wait>10
//GetWindowText>WinHan,AllText
GetWindowPos>Winhan,x,y
GetWindowSize>Winhan,w,h
//let>y=%y%+10
GetTextInit
//GetTextAtPoint>x,y,text,nChar
//mdl>%text%

GetWindowTextEx>WinHan,res
mdl>%res%


//mdl>%intLeft%

//GetTextAtPoint>
//mdl>%AllText%  %x%,%y%


//IEGetURL>IE[0],IsUrl
//IEGetTags>IsUrl,,,Test
//GetWindowList>wl
//mdl>%wl%



//Click A tag with text "Log In" in IE[0] instance
//IEClickTag>IE[0],,,A,TEXT,Log In,result

I'm in the testing phase, so the script is not well formatted. As you can see I have been trying quite a bit.

Appreciate any help.

Thanks,
PepsiHog

I am working my way to IMDb. Since the search has IMDb in it, the result should be the first link. In my tests, they have been. I now want the url that is below the link. It will be a link for IMDb. That is my goal to grab.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Don't think those commands are ever going to see text in IE. You want to be using IEGetTags/IEGetTagsByAttrib. If you were to post the HTML and tell us what you want to extract we'd be able to help further.

[PepsiHog]

Thanks Marcus. I have already been given assistance from Dorian. The resulting macro works awesomely. And I learned how to easily get information from the internet.

PepsiHog