[Http.get] - finding a time between a <div> </div> tag

TimePage="http://www.mytimewebpage.somethingmaybedotcom?"
while true do
	page=http.get(TimePage)
	print(textutils.serialize(page))
	sleep(0.5)
end

gsub("</div>(.-)","%1") -- theres a closing div right after the time, and after that closing div, a lot of other html stuffz

21:24:56</div><div id=i_timea><a href="/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cet.html" title="Central European Time">CET</a></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
et=1392408496;function f0(d){return ld[d.getUTCDay()]+' '+d.getUTCDate()+'.'+' '+lm[d.getUTCMonth()]+' '+d.getUTCFullYear()+', kl. '+p2(d.getUTCHours())+':'+p2(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'+p2(d.getUTCSeconds());}
function f1(d){return ld[d.getUTCDay()]+' '+d.getUTCDate()+'.'+' '+lm[d.getUTCMonth()]+' '+d.getUTCFullYear();}
function f2(d){return p2(d.getUTCHours())+':'+p2(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'+p2(d.getUTCSeconds());}
cks={ctu:{t:[{t:0,o:0,a:'UTC'}],f:f0},i_date:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f1},i_time:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f2},ct:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f0,d:12}};
lm=[];lm[1]='februar';ld=[];ld[3]='onsdag';ld[4]='torsdag';ld[5]='fredag';idpref={i_date:1.2,i_time:5};
</script></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><script src="http://a.tadst.com/common/wcommon_17.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>

page = http.get(site).readAll()
page:match("^%d+:%d+:%d+",1)
print(page)

Mikk809h, on 12 February 2014 - 03:34 PM said:

Didn't work :(/>/>
still the same output

my code:

page = http.get(site).readAll()
page:match("^%d+:%d+:%d+",1)
print(page)

print(string.match(page, "^(%d+:%d+:%d+)"))

Lyqyd, on 12 February 2014 - 03:43 PM said:

Mikk809h, on 12 February 2014 - 03:34 PM said:

Didn't work :(/>/>
still the same output

my code:

page = http.get(site).readAll()
page:match("^%d+:%d+:%d+",1)
print(page)

You threw away the result of the match.

print(string.match(page, "^(%d+:%d+:%d+)"))

<div id="i_date">TheDay(Thursday) 13. February 2014</div>

TimePage="SomeTimewebsite.something"
term.clear()
local date=nil
local time=nil
while true do
	page=http.get(TimePage).readAll()
	term.setCursorPos(1,1)
	-- two seperate variables should contain Time, and date..
	local time_read=page:gsub('(.-)<div id=i_time>','') -- Removes everything before the time
	local date_read=page:gsub('(.-)<div id=i_date>','') -- Removes everything before the date
	print(date_read) -- prints everything after the date
	print("\n --- --- --- --- --- --- \n")
	time=(string.match(time_read, "^(%d+:%d+:%d+)"))
	date=(string.match(date_read, "^(%w+ %w+ %w+)"))
	print(time)
	print(date)
end

Lyqyd, on 13 February 2014 - 12:24 PM said:

Please paste a complete sample of the page returned by the site. We can help provide a single pattern that will return both pieces of information individually.

Its all before that first </div> which is the date..
torsdag 13. februar 2014</div><div id=i_time>19:27:39</div><div id=i_timea><a href="/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cet.html" title="Central European Time">CET</a></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
et=1392487859;function f0(d){return ld[d.getUTCDay()]+' '+d.getUTCDate()+'.'+' '+lm[d.getUTCMonth()]+' '+d.getUTCFullYear()+', kl. '+p2(d.getUTCHours())+':'+p2(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'+p2(d.getUTCSeconds());}
function f1(d){return ld[d.getUTCDay()]+' '+d.getUTCDate()+'.'+' '+lm[d.getUTCMonth()]+' '+d.getUTCFullYear();}
function f2(d){return p2(d.getUTCHours())+':'+p2(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'+p2(d.getUTCSeconds());}
cks={ctu:{t:[{t:0,o:0,a:'UTC'}],f:f0},i_date:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f1},i_time:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f2},ct:{t:[{o:3600,a:'CET'}],f:f0,d:13}};
lm=[];lm[1]='februar';ld=[];ld[4]='torsdag';ld[5]='fredag';ld[6]='lørdag';idpref={i_date:1.2,i_time:5};
</script></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><script src="http://a.tadst.com/common/wcommon_17.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>

surferpup, on 13 February 2014 - 12:50 PM said:

I respect what you are doing here for general reasons (pulling a specific piece of info from a web page), however, for time and date, http://www.timeapi.org will give you exactly what you are after with no mucking about in the wilderness of html tags.

I used it in my Real World Time API. You are welcome to pull it apart and look at that.

local date, time = string.match(page, "(%a+ %d+%. %a+ %d+).-(%d+:%d+:%d+)")

Lyqyd, on 13 February 2014 - 01:29 PM said:

That doesn't look like the whole response. I did specify that we needed the whole thing and it looks like you cut off everything before the date text. I don't know of many HTML pages where the first tag is a closing div tag.