[squeak-dev] Re: Extracting data from web pages using Squeak

Giuseppe Luigi Punzi glpunzi at lordzealon.com
Tue Jun 17 16:14:19 UTC 2008


I don't need to parse this site. Only was to try the code posted.

Bernd Elkemann escribió:
> Giuseppe Luigi Punzi schrieb:
>> I tried with lordzealon.com and was a bit slowly.
> wow that is an understatement, it actually takes forever on that 
> particular website because it transmits a lot from unrelated sites 
> like googlesyndication.com. If it is really that website you want to 
> parse: use a normal browser to save the .html, then use squeak to 
> parse it (you can use Squeak to only grab the html from the site but 
> its complicated, see the posts of the other newsgroup members)
> A progress bar is probably not what you want because what takes long 
> here is the transmission of the website, not the parsing. If it were 
> the parsing you could tell at any Moment what percentage is completed, 
> in the case of the transmission thats difficult to tell.
> But if you need ProgressBars for something else: there is class 
> ProgressMorph. You will have to tell a ProgressMorph which value 
> (percentage %) it is supposed to show.
> Greetings, Bernd
>
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