How to extract text from textarea?

bugmenot666 · Post by **bugmenot666** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:40 pm

I'm using the iMacros Firefox addon. What I'm trying to do is copy the text and save it in a txt. But,the problem I'm facing is I can't get iMacros to get the textarea element. No matter where I click on the page I get no response. I'm hoping if you guys could help me out.

The page source from firebug:

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<body bgcolor="white" onload="self.focus()" linkifying="true" linkifycurrent="0" linkifymax="0" style="">
<textarea onclick="this.select();" onmouseover="this.select();" onfocus="this.select();" style="width: 380px; height: 380px;">
544191205,20100904,20101205,347
191303666,20101017,20101203,66
423266821,20101104,20101206,55
631973840,20101105,20101204,45
296457418,20101113,20101206,45
601542564,20101114,20101205,45
113562059,20101114,20101202,43
23450288,20101118,20101205,40
808923114,20101124,20101206,32
752364614,20101126,20101206,32
469679480,20101204,20101206,4
350121088,20101206,20101206,4
</textarea>
</body>

Here's the screenshot of how the page looks like:

How should the code look like in the macro? Is it like this?
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA ATTR=TXT* EXTRACT=TXT

The text changes everyday. And as for saving it into a txt is it like this?
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=D:\folder FILE=sometxtname.txt

Post by **Tom, Tech Support** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:20 pm

How should the code look like in the macro? Is it like this?
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA ATTR=TXT* EXTRACT=TXT

Almost, you left out a colon:
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT

And as for saving it into a txt is it like this?
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=D:\folder FILE=sometxtname.txt

Correct.

bugmenot666 · Post by **bugmenot666** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:08 am

Thanks, It worked out nicely except the lines are all connected. When it is saved to a txt it turns out like this,

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544191205,20100904,20101205,347191303666,20101017,20101203,66423266821,20101104,20101206,55

Is there a way to make them to break? So they would look like this instead?

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544191205,20100904,20101205,347
191303666,20101017,20101203,66
423266821,20101104,20101206,55

Post by **Tom, Tech Support** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:04 pm

Hi bugmenot666,

Since the entire TEXTAREA contents are treated as a single field, you would need to call your macro from a script to parse the contents of this field into separate lines.

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