I’m trying to parse an HTML file which I have converted to a TXT file inside of Automator.
I previously downloaded the HTML file from a website using Automator, and I am now struggling to parse the source code.
Preferably, I want to take the information of just the table and I need to repeat this action for 1800 different HTML files.
Here is an example of the source code:
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div class="wrapper">
<span class="access">
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<span class="access">
Gold Account: <a class="upgrade" title="Account Details" href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/account-details.html" >Active </a> Logged in as Edward | <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick='logout()' class="logout">Sign Out</a>
</span>
</span>
</div><!-- /wrapper -->
</div><!-- /header -->
<div id="masthead">
<div class="wrapper">
<a href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com" ><img src="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/images/hedgep_logo_white.png" alt="Hedge Professionals Database" width="333" height="46" class="logo" border="0" /></a>
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li ><a href='http://www.hedge-professionals.com/dashboard.html' >Dashboard</a></li> <li ><a href='http://www.hedge-professionals.com/people.html'class='current' >People</a></li><li ><a href='http://www.hedge-professionals.com/watchlists.html' >My Watchlists</a></li><li ><a href='http://www.hedge-professionals.com/my-searches.html' >My Searches</a></li><li ><a href='http://www.hedge-professionals.com/my-profile.html' >My Profile</a></li></ul>
</div><!-- /navigation -->
</div><!-- /wrapper -->
</div><!-- /masthead -->
<div id="content">
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="main-content">
<!-- per Project stuff -->
<span class="section">
<img src="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/images/people/noimage_53x53.jpg" alt="Christian Sieling" width="52" height="53" class="profile-pic" id="profile-pic-104947"/>
<h1><span id="profile-name-104947" >Christian Sieling</span></h1>
<ul class="gbutton-group right">
<li><a class="gbutton bold pill" href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/people.html">« Back </a></li>
<li><a class="gbutton bold pill boxy on-click" href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/addtoWatchlist.php?usr=114752" id="row-104947" title='Add to Watchlist' >Add to Watchlist</a></li>
</ul>
<div style="float:right;padding:3px 3px;text-align:center;margin-top:5px;" >
<span id="profile-updated-date" >Updated On: 4 Aug, 2010</span><br/>
<a class="gbutton bold pill" href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/profile/suggest/people/104947/Christian-Sieling" style="margin:5px;" title='Report Inaccurate Data' >Report Inaccurate Data</a>
</div>
<h2><span id="profile-details-104947" > at <a href="http://www.hedge-professionals.com/quicksearch/search/Lumix+Capital+Management+Ltd." ><span title='Lumix Capital Management Ltd.' >Lumix Capital Management Ltd.</span></a></span><input type="hidden" name="sub-id" id="sub-id" value="114752"></h2>
</span>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="profile-table">
<tr>
<th>Role</th>
<td>
<p>Other</p> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Organisation Type</th>
<td>
<p>Asset Manager</p> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Email</th>
<td><a href="mailto:cs@lumixcapital.com" title="cs@lumixcapital.com" >cs@lumixcapital.com</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Website</th>
<td><a href="http://www.lumixcapital.com/" target="_new" title="http://www.lumixcapital.com/" >http://www.lumixcapital.com/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Phone</th>
<td>41 78 616 7334</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Fax</th>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Mailing Address</th>
<td>Birrenstrasse 30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>City</th>
<td>Schindellegi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>State</th>
<td>CH</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Country</th>
<td>Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="lastrow" >Zip/ Postal Code</th>
<td class="lastrow" >8834</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><!-- /main-content -->
<div id="sidebar" >
</div>
<div id="similar_sidebar" class="similar_refine" >
</div>
</div><!-- /wrapper -->
</div><!-- /content -->
<div id="footer">
</div>
My AppleScript attempt that is using text item delimiters to extract the table in a similar fashion:
set p to input
set ex to extractBetween(p, "<table>", "</table>") -- extract the URL
to extractBetween(SearchText, startText, endText)
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to startText
set endItems to text of text item -1 of SearchText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to endText
set beginningToEnd to text of text item 1 of endItems
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
return beginningToEnd
end extractBetween
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