ActionScript 3.0 :: Grabbing Text Off Of A HTML Page?
Sep 16, 2009
I'm not sure if you able to do this or not. But basically I want to be able to grab text off a website (not the one the SWF is hosted on).
I have several sites from which I am making small amounts of money online.. I want to make a small app that loads the URL and searches the pages for the spot where the money is listed, then add them all up to shorten me having to consistently check each. The app could refresh loads, say every 30 seconds or so. Is there a way to do that?
Another example would be to make a text box in flash that displays the headline of an article on CNN.com
I did the like with loading XML from other pages, but what I want to do just involves grabbing any said text from a site.
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