id like to get a pd set to 'read' a html page on the web. ive got it reading .txt files locally, but wondered if there's a plugin that allows pd to access files online.

what im trying to achieve is to display words from webpages in gem, ideally by reading them straight from the sites themselves. failing this, is there anything out there (apple script etc?) that can convert html pages into .txt files through a script, i.e. not manually.

e.g. if i add some words to a blog, can i somehow get those words into pd?

ive seen this done using flash, and possibly max or processing, so hoping its possible with pd!

thanks

[netclient]

In theory you should be able to send it a message [connect website.com 80(

followed by

[GET /index.html HTTP/1.0(

and get a webpage back.

In practice I've never got it to work. If you do please share your results. I susepect it's buggy or the problem is with Pds terrible handling of non-printable characters and strings. In the end I've used a simple perl one liner or an external C program to talk to the webserver. Or just use netcat.

thanks, i'll give it a go.
i guess if its reading html there's a lot of characters that will be unuseable etc
but perhaps with some careful html coding, or if there's a way to only call up frames as opposed to complete pages, it could work.
ill look into netcat as well.
if i have any luck, ill post back on this thread
thanks