site-reader

[TyShkan]

who can give me a script, that can connect to site and read information from them, then converting
to \n, etc. and save the information to the file news.txt...
Who can help?

[Herodes]

Since there are unlimited ways to provide data through html or any other type of web document a universal site reader is not possible ... even if it is it wouldn't be practical ...
I would say that having a standard html data structure could make this possible ....
Pls provide an address from where you need the news to be read from....

What u asked for would be ok with

gsub(data, "
", "\r\n") ... maybe :)

[TyShkan]

i'm reading news from special-formatted page, which generated php-script, this page is now not accessible...i'm don't finish works on it...how i can grab data from site?

[Herodes]

You can find c h i l l a's Exchange Converter script here
Scroll down to the GetRates function ...
It gives a nice example of how to connect to a site and get specific data out of it ...
although personally I have never tried scripting smth like that ... :)

[TyShkan]

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[TyShkan]

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[Herodes]

I see now that u have been trying to grab
Hi!))\n\nOooOoooOooo
dont forget to try also with "\r\n" apart from "\n"

[TyShkan]

Hi! Using this script I have written own=)

GETHTML = "GET /lol.php HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: xhub.ultranet.ru\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; LUA 4.0; LUA 4.0)\r\n"

Bot = "::[X]::"

function GetNews(user)
	local socket, err = connect("xhub.ultranet.ru", 80)
	local code = ""
	if not err then
		socket:timeout(2)
		socket:send(GETHTML..strchar(13,10))
		local line = ""
		while not err do
			line, err = socket:receive("*l")
			code = code..line
		end
		socket:close()
	end
	socket:close()
	user:SendData(Bot, code)
end

function DataArrival(user, data)
	if (strsub(data,1,1) == "<" or strsub(data,1,5+strlen(Bot)) == "$To: "..Bot) then
		data = strsub(data,1,strlen(data)-1)
		s,e,cmd = strfind(data, "%b<>%s+(%S+)")
		if (cmd == "!go") then
			GetNews(user)
		end
	end
end

Page is now accessible at http://xhub.ultranet.ru/lol.php and contains

Hi!))\r\n\r\nOooOoooOooo

When i writing !go, this script return

HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:24:33 GMTServer: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_become/1.3 PHP/4.3.5 mod_layout/3.2X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.5Connection: closeTransfer-Encoding: chunkedContent-Type: text/html14 Hi!))\r\n\r\nOooOoooOooo0

What i would change, that the script would understand "\n", etc and showing

Hi!))\r\n\r\nOooOoooOooo

as

Hi!))

OooOoooOooo

in dc?
Thanks ;)