Purpose
Connects to a specified web address and returns the page as a string.
This is a quick way to:
• return variable data from web pages
• build screen-scraping tools
• insert web data into FirstClass
In combination with the fcHTML body type, GetURL can be used to fill FirstClass documents and messages with data from the web.
Syntax
GetURL (URLString [, Timeout])
URLString |
The URL as a string. The port defaults to 80 if not specified in the URL. |
Timeout |
The time (in seconds) to wait for the connection to the web address. The timeout defaults to 10 seconds if not specified. |
Example
Debug GetURL ("http://www.firstclass.com")
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