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MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 06:46 AM
i was told there is a way i can use javascript to read words on webpages and do a certain action when a certain word shows up?

say if i was on e-bay and it scanned the page for the word "outbid" and found it,it would click on the bid button and bid

is this possible to do?

i am ready to read and learn to do this

i dunno if you can do this, but i was told you could have script that refreshes a page and scans it for words then depends on the words will do actions
Charles
11-18-2004, 07:04 AM
For security reasons JavaScript runs in something like a sand box. You cannot use it to monkey with other people's pages.
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 07:05 AM
i wasn't going to play with other people's pages

i just wanted something that refreshed a page scaned for a certain word and then hit a button or clicked a link
Charles
11-18-2004, 07:16 AM
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<meta name="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title>Example</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (document.getElementById) onload = function () {
var body = document.getElementsByTagName ('BODY')[0];
var e, i = 0, n = 0;
while (e = body.getElementsByTagName ('*')[i++]) {if (/\best\b/i.test (e.firstChild.data)) n += e.firstChild.data.match (/\best\b/ig).length}
if (n) {alert (n)}
}
// -->
</script>

</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 07:24 AM
sorry but that doesn't help
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 07:25 AM
Try this then:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Search Page</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA [*/
function getFile(fileName){
oxmlhttp = null;
try{
oxmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
oxmlhttp.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
}
catch(e){
try{
oxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
}
if(!oxmlhttp) return null;
try{
oxmlhttp.open("GET",fileName,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
}
catch(e){
return "<span style='font-size:xx-large;color:red'> ERROR: "+e.name + " - " + e.message+"</span>";
}
return oxmlhttp.responseText;
}

function checkPage(){
document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML = getFile(document.getElementById("searchPath").value);
var found=document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML.search(document.getElementById("searchVal").value);
if(found > 0) alert("Phrase found at position: "+found);
else alert("Phrase not found");
}
/*]]>*/
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div>
Depth:<input id="searchVal" value="search for" size="20" type="text" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Path:<input id="searchPath" value="http://" size="40" type="text" /><br />
<button onclick="checkPage()">Click to Start</button>
</div>

<div id="iPut" style="border:12px outset red;"></div>

</body>
</html>
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 07:26 AM
nothing fancy with this stuff right? i mean just C & P the text into notepad and name it something.html
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 07:27 AM
That should do it....
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 07:34 AM
it's not finding text on the site

it says "phrase not found"

it goes to any site i put in though but doesn't find text or links
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 07:38 AM
The way it's set up now it's case sensative. Could that be the problem?
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 07:45 AM
ok i got it to find words

"Phrase found at position: 1892"

that is kinda the tip of the iceberg for what i am trying to get

is there code that will refresh the page every X amount of seconds and after each refresh scan for the word? and if the word is found click on a link?
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 07:55 AM
Could add:

setTimeOut("checkPage();",5000);

at the end of of the checkPage function and replace the if block with:

if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://newURL";
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 08:17 AM
function checkPage(){
document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML = getFile(document.getElementById("searchPath").value);
var found=document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML.search(document.getElementById("searchVal").value);
if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://newURL";
else alert("Phrase not found");


i got the If worked out and redirect to the site i want if i change the document.location.href="http://newURL"; to document.location.href="http://www.siteiwant.com";

but just not the refresh

where do i put that?
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 08:33 AM
Right after the else line and before the }.
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 08:38 AM
do i need another IF ELSE to make it so that if the phrase is not found it will reload the url i put in the top until the phrase is found? then continue with the redirect to the

if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://url.com"; page?


sorry but i might have not used the right words to say what i wanted it to do

the refresh i want for when the word is not found and i want it to refresh until the word is found and then use the above IF to redirect to the url
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 08:42 AM
Shouldn't have to. If the phrase is found you'll be redirected and the timer is not reset; if not you'll drop through and reset the timer, and it will re-execute the checkPage() function.
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 08:43 AM
BTW - If you don't want an alert each time you can eliminate the else line completely.
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 09:08 AM
i am testing it...
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 09:15 AM
it doesn't refresh the page and scan for the word

is there code to refresh the site i can put in along with the refresh for the search?
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 09:26 AM
The page being searched should be reloading each time. May be a cache issue...
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 09:27 AM
i will try again but it wasn't reloading the page and searching

i used a page and updated it and nothing
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 09:32 AM
}
function checkPage(){
document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML = getFile(document.getElementById("searchPath").value);
var found=document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML.search(document.getElementById("searchVal").value);
if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://www.url.com";
setTimeOut("checkPage();",5000);
}

that is what i have code wise
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 09:47 AM
Works for me. You could try this though:


var srchNum=0;
function checkPage(){
srchNum++;
document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML = "<p style='font-size:large;color:red'>Search number: "+srchNum+"</p>"+getFile(document.getElementById("searchPath").value);
var found=document.getElementById("iPut").innerHTML.search(document.getElementById("searchVal").value);
if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://www.url.com";
setTimeOut("checkPage();",5000);
}
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 09:53 AM
it's not refreshing the webpage and then searching

sorry if i didn't make it clear

what about code to refresh the webpage and to refresh the search if the word is not found

i'm sorry if i sound like a *****
TheBearMay
11-18-2004, 10:01 AM
Guess what I'm trying to say is that the code above will, absent outside influences, re-fetch and reload the page being searched every time. If, however, you're going through a proxy server or any other device that caches the page, it may take a while to see the results. In the second set of code I added a search counter just to show that page is being reloaded, but again, if it's reloading a cached page it will take a while to change the data it's getting.
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 10:08 AM
ok thank you so so so much

i can use that right now thank you
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 10:12 AM
1 more thing

is there code that i can put in so that when it does find a word it will click a button or link?

code like the

if(found > 0) document.location.href="http://www.url.com";

say something like

if(found > 0)clicklink"Main"?
MargaretWilhelm
11-18-2004, 10:16 AM
bah

it's still not refreshing the IE page

i am working with a .php site and updating 1 word with lower or uppercase letters and the search count is going up and it's not refreshing the webpage

what's the code so it refreshes the page when i click the search button then searches?