I'm throwing around an idea that I grab results from a webserver and display them on screen. As in, I control the webcode too and can pass back simple text. I tried looking up some javascript to do this but kept running into issues, especially since 99% of people aren't trying to pass back to a BBS, and then thought to try here.

Not anything too fancy, I just want to grab text results and display them on the screen. What would be the most direct route to do this?

Thanks!

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Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: The Lizard Master to All on Thu Jul 23 2020 00:49:29

I'm throwing around an idea that I grab results from a webserver and display them on screen. As in,
I control the webcode too and can pass back simple text. I tried looking up some javascript to do
this but kept running into issues, especially since 99% of people aren't trying to pass back to a
BBS, and then thought to try here.

Not anything too fancy, I just want to grab text results and display them on the screen. What would
be the most direct route to do this?

load('http.js');
var req = new HTTPRequest();
var res = req.Get('http://some.web.site/');
console.putmsg(res);

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Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: echicken to The Lizard Master on Thu Jul 23 2020 09:14 am

I'm throwing around an idea that I grab results from a webserver and display them on screen. As in, I control the webcode too and can pass back simple text. I tried looking up some javascript to do this but kept running into issues, especially since 99% of people aren't trying to pass back to a BBS, and then thought to try here.

Not anything too fancy, I just want to grab text results and display them on the screen. What would be the most direct route to do this?

load('http.js');
var req = new HTTPRequest();
var res = req.Get('http://some.web.site/');
console.putmsg(res);

Awesome, thanks!

---TLM

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Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: echicken to The Lizard Master on Thu Jul 23 2020 09:14 am

load('http.js');
var req = new HTTPRequest();
var res = req.Get('http://some.web.site/');
console.putmsg(res);

This is probably my javascript ignorance, but can I ask how you pass a javascript variable to a url variable? I tried setting it to a complete string that displays correctly, but I get a 400 error response from the server.

var res = req.Get(fullFormedURLThatWorksCopyPaste);

I also tried this -

var res = req.Get('http:///some.web.site/page?variable1=' + variable1);

THANKS!

---TLM

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Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: The Lizard Master to echicken on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:18:14

This is probably my javascript ignorance, but can I ask how you pass a javascript variable to a url
variable? I tried setting it to a complete string that displays correctly, but I get a 400 error
response from the server.

You can pass in a string, whether it be a variable or a string literal, eg:

req.Get('https://some.web.site/'); // literal
var url = 'https://some.web.site/');
req.Get(url); // variable

var res = req.Get(fullFormedURLThatWorksCopyPaste);

Depends on what fullFormedURLThatWorksCopyPaste is.

I also tried this -

var res = req.Get('http:///some.web.site/page?variable1=' + variable1);

As long as variable1 is a string (or a type that will become a string as needed, but that's a whole other topic). And remove that extra slash near the beginning.

req.Get('http://some.web.site/page?variable1=' + 'some_string');
var param = 'some_string';
req.Get('http://some.web.site/page?variable1=' + param);
var url = 'http://some.web.site/page?variable1=';
req.Get(url + param);

and so on.

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On 8/20/2020 6:18 AM, The Lizard Master wrote:

Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: echicken to The Lizard Master on Thu Jul 23 2020 09:14 am

> load('http.js');
> var req = new HTTPRequest();
> var res = req.Get('http://some.web.site/');
> console.putmsg(res);

This is probably my javascript ignorance, but can I ask how you pass a javascript variable to a url variable? I tried setting it to a complete string that displays correctly, but I get a 400 error response from the server.

var res = req.Get(fullFormedURLThatWorksCopyPaste);

I also tried this -

var res = req.Get('http:///some.web.site/page?variable1=' + variable1);

var res = req.Get('http:///some.web.site/page?variable1=' + encodeURIComponent(variable1))

If encodeURIComponent isn't available, use escape

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Re: Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: Tracker1 to The Lizard Master on Thu Aug 20 2020 10:37 am

var res = req.Get('http:///some.web.site/page?variable1=' + encodeURIComponent(variable1))

If encodeURIComponent isn't available, use escape

Yessss, thank you very much, that was the ticket.

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Re: Grabbing results from a webpage
By: echicken to The Lizard Master on Thu Aug 20 2020 11:44 am

As long as variable1 is a string (or a type that will become a string as needed, but that's a whole other topic). And remove that extra slash near the beginning.

Thanks for catching that, it was a mistype in the post not in the code.

req.Get('http://some.web.site/page?variable1=' + 'some_string');

For a sec I thought this was working, then I checked the log and saw the url variable was 'some_string' hah! Appreciate it very much, a combination of this and encodeURIComponent() got me there.

MUCH APPRECIATED!

---TLM

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