How to read web page source?

[Laakkus]

Hello.

I need to read (and search for a string) a web page's source. Any help appreciated.

The search part i think i can handle, but haven't been able to find anything to get the web page source to a string/array/anything that i can manipulate.

I'd prefer a solution WITHOUT any external programs if possible.

[jeb]

IMHO with pure batch this isn't possible, but you could use vbscript/jscript.
And use this from a batch file.

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for /F "usebackq tokens=1-3 delims=," %%a in (`cscript /nologo GetHtml.vbs http://google.com/`) DO (
  echo(%%a
)

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'GetHTML.vbs
URL = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp")
http.open "GET", URL, FALSE
http.send ""
WScript.echo http.responseText

You could even embedd the vbs into your batch file if necessary.

jeb

[aGerman]

There are third party tools like Wget or cURL. By default you can't do that via batch.
Otherwise you could use VBScript or JScript (as jeb has been shown) if you need to get the source text without external tools.

Regards
aGerman

[Laakkus]

Thank you both for your quick replies!
I'll get back to you if I run into more trouble

[darioit]

OK aGerman thank you, but can I parse my saved html file previously saved?