Search and Retrieve

[earl]

I am a newbie to Revolution so I'm not sure if this is doable or has already been done. But here's my question anyway. The project I am working on is to create a dictionary with words and definitions. In trying to collect this information, is it possible to have a script in Revolution Studio that does a search on a selected website and find the revelant text and retrieve it in a file format. For example. I would do a search in a selected site (say google) for the word "abundance". Once the definition for the word was found, it would retrieve the text and save it in a flie to be accessed and/or exported to another document later. If not doable, any workaround suggestions?

Thanks,
Earl

[xApple]

That's doable.
To get web pages just use commands similar to:

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put url "http://www.google.com/search?q=abundance" into myWebPage

And to write to a file the following is of use:

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on writeFile
  answer folder "Please choose a folder for" && the short name of this stack && "to write in."
  put it into theOutputFolder
  put theOutputFolder & "/" & "dataFile.xls" into myPath
  set the filetype to "XCELTEXT"
  open file myPath for text write
  if the result is not empty then answer "Error !" & return & the result & return & "while opening." with "Damit"
  write myData to file myPath
  if the result is not empty then answer "Error !" & return & the result & return & "while writing." with "Damit"
  close file myPath
end writeFile

on readFile
  global myData
  --
  answer file "A tab-sperated text file is expected"
  put it into theFilePath
  open file theFilePath for text read
  if the result is not empty then answer "Error"
  read from file theFilePath until EOF
  if the result is not "eof" then answer "Error"
  put it into myData
  close file theFilePath
end readFile

[Mark Smith]

Also, you can read and write files using the URL form:

put tText into URL "file:someFolder/someFile.txt"

put URL "file:"someFolder/someText.txt" into tText

Best

Marl