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tomaleb
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September 28, 2021
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Script to parse text from www to text frame in InDesign

  • September 28, 2021
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Hi, 

I'm looking for help in writing a simple script, which will parse names from www where is a list of names celebrating name days. Anybody had something similar?

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Peter Kahrel
Adobe Expert
September 28, 2021

Why do you think it's a simple script? And what do you mean by 'parse names from www'?

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    tomalebAuthor
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    September 29, 2021

    I mean – I got a www, where everyday a list of names celebrating their name day changes. 

    And I would like to automate getting those names to a text frame in InDesign. By clicking some button in ID for example.

     

    Why I think it's a simple script? Because I don't know too much about writing them probably. I just thought like "hey, getting some text from www should be done by a few commands". But maybe it's not that easy if I didn't find the resolution in Google. 

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    Peter Kahrel
    Adobe Expert
    September 29, 2021

    If you want to read names from a web page, that's not easy at all. It has been done, someone who has experience with it will jump in (I hope).

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