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"Scraping" source code from web pages

"Scraping" source code from web pages - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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"Scraping" source code from web pages

We've been talking about how we can use the web viewer layout object to display data from web pages inside of the context of our FileMaker layouts. We can also talk about how we go into the web Viewer Setup and we can actually pull data from records in our FileMaker database or fields even within a record to dynamically display those web pages in our FileMaker layouts. But web viewers can also be used to not only display web data, but also to consume web data into the database. Let me show you an example of what I'm talking about and then I'll kind of reverse engineer how this works. If you open up the exercise file Invoice 09_02, you'll see that I've got a layout called Conversion. All I've got going on here is just a simple web viewer and I've got a text field. So we've got a web viewer that's unfortunately because I'm on Mac, it doesn't actually show the source code, which is really what we're gong to be working with here, but I'll show you that in a second. But it displays the…

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