[Wtr-general] get the meta tag out of a page

[Jeff Wood]

Alien Ruby wrote:
> Thank you so much, Jeff.
>
> This is the key, right here - ie.document.getElementsByTagName( "meta" ).item(i).outerHTML
>
> I couldnt figure this out what function to use by myself, but now it's worked out very well.
>
> But, my other question is why '...outerHTML.getContents' or '...outerHTML.getText' or some similar functions cant just spit out the value/content?
>
>
> # I leave it to you to come up with good regular expressions for parsing
> things out.
>
> # these work but are overly greedy.
> matches = body.scan( /name="(.+)"/ )
> name = matches[1] || ""
> matches = body.scan( /content="(.+)"/ )
> content = matches[1] || ""
> matches = body.scan( /http-equiv="{0,1}(.+)"{0,1}/ )
> http_equiv = matches[1] || ""
>
> http_equivs[http_equiv] = content if http_equiv != ""
> metas[name] = content if name != ""
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Well, you could always create a small function specifically to parse 
meta tags ... then you would use it like

meta = parseMeta( ie.document.getElementsByTagName( "meta" 
).item(i).outerHTML )
meta[:content]
meta[:content-type]

... etc.

you get the idea ... just requires a little ingenuity.

jd


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