From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Retrieve a web page into buffer and insert some text into it.
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:46:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimUko6PPcfjvpN+xB5XbZVvMuBW=Svjz01jyFsX@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C504E73.6050207@mousecar.com>
See the thread about getting the title of a web page.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>
> How would I fetch a web page into a new buffer, then programmatically
> insert some text into it? (Of course subsequently saving the buffer to
> a file may done interactively.)
>
> I know a little elisp, but not yet the polished programmer (as this
> nonfunctioning code shows):
>
> load url.el
>
> (defun www-edit-web-page (url)
> "Retrieve web page and load into new buffer for editing.
> Automatically insert after <body> tag URL, appropriately html-tagged URL."
> (interactive "sLoad URL: "
> (with-temp-buffer (url-retrieve url edit-web-page))))
>
>
> (defun edit-web-page (status)
> "Switch to the buffer returned by `url-retreive'.
> The buffer should contain the web page sent by the server."
> (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
> (goto-char 0)
> (re-search-forward "<body.*>" nil t) ;go to end of <body ...> tag.
> ;insert URL into page, properly html-coded.
> (insert "\n<p>From: <a href=\"" url "\">" url "</a>\n </p>\n\n"))
>
>
>
>
> --
> Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance,
> and health policy at: <http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 15:36 Retrieve a web page into buffer and insert some text into it ken
2010-07-28 15:46 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-07-28 23:46 ` ken
2010-07-29 15:22 ` filebat Mark
2010-07-29 20:01 ` ken
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=7Y3=H1CeY_OvKZWwZp4R1JwpJCJQ20OMHTEKu@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-30 11:23 ` ken
2010-07-30 16:32 ` filebat Mark
2010-07-30 16:51 ` filebat Mark
2010-07-30 17:00 ` filebat Mark
2010-07-30 17:12 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-07-31 2:05 ` filebat Mark
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