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Pulling Data from Websites

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Robert Stegner
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Is RSS the only way to pull from a website? We have a Daily Bulletin on our website that we would like to use without typing it a second time. The way the website is setup we can't build a RSS feed for it!
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    RokuLyndon


    Is it the while page you want to display? What exactly do you want to pull from the page? The brightsign supports making http get calls to grab files using urls. This can be done using scripting. Is it text you want to grab, or an image?
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    Robert Stegner


    I am just wanting to pull text.  Images would be nice but Text is the important part.  The page is <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ps.usd288.org/bulletin/2584">http://ps.usd288.org/bulletin/2584</a><!-- m -->
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    RokuLyndon


    And, then you want to display the same info on the Screen?
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    Robert Stegner


    I want to be able to pull the text from that site and display it in a Zone.  It doesn't have to look the same it just has to have the information.  I am trying to avoid duplicating data entry.
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    RokuLyndon


    You can write a custom script that will get a file from a web server. You could grab a file, and then parse it to get the information you wanted to display.
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    Robert Stegner


    Do you have a sample script?  I do not have any experience in writing scripts and wouldn't know where to begin.
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