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fcccjeremy
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05/16/11 01:29 PM (14 years ago)

Trying to create custom html to display main content from existing webpage

I would like to be able to display the main content from a page on our website with out having the header and the menus. Mainly just the text from the page. I have spent days looking at Web Scraping and have decided this is not exactly what I want to do. I want to be able to say in a custom html got to this url>extract this certain data>display the extracted data Is this possible? I don't really know HTML that well, but I'd love to learn something helpful. I'm currently using BT1.4 Thanks!
 
ianJamesPiano
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05/16/11 02:43 PM (14 years ago)
When i want to display a webpage in my app i go to the webpage, select all, save as web archive (this is on mac)...then you can edit out whatever you don't want in editing program...copy and paste into app...hope this helps. let me know.
 
fcccjeremy
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05/16/11 02:46 PM (14 years ago)
Thanks for the response. I meant to say this the first time, but I want it to be dynamic... if the webpage gets updated then the text on the app would get updated. I'm trying to streamline integration between the app and our website.
 
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05/16/11 02:50 PM (14 years ago)
Hmmm not sure...maybe David or another member will know....I will report back if I find something.
 
TheHoogler
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05/16/11 09:48 PM (14 years ago)
Are you producing for Apple? If so, you really ought to get onto the early adopter list for 1.5, its great! So, I'm assuming since you have Apple Fan, you're developing for Apple, which means you're using a Mac. This mac of yours should have Iweb. Let me show you what I'm doing. My free app, Fish Finder demonstrates this. Each location on my app has a dynamic html page (dynamic for adsense and a rating system). I did this by creating a html webaddress using Iweb (just like publishing a regular website). Now, your situation is a little different. You probably want your page in a display that is optimized for mobile devices. This is what I would do. I would create a page in Iweb (or your own website editor, if you want) for use in your app. You can then embed certain parts of ANOTHER website into this page. So, if you make your new page at a width of 400px (I found this to be good for Iphone), you can embed another website into this section, and it will update as you update the original site. This might all sound a little convoluted, but here's an address telling you how to do this in Iweb (maybe you can figure it out on your own website builder?) http://iwebunlimited.com/iweb-tips/tip-2-iframes-in-iweb-websites-within-websites/ Good luck!
 

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