iOS Getting Text Off of Site

[Wellington2k]

Hello again.
I thought it would be cool if I could get certain text on a site and then print it. Specifically the "This Week's Featured Article" column on http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Web sites contain copyrighted text and other assets. You aren't allowed to just scrape the data that you want from any old web site. Web sites that want you to be able to download their information will have terms of service that allow this. Often they will have an RSS feed for the purpose.

Investigate the TOS of any web site that you're interested in and look for RSS or any other API to get the info from the site.

Aside from that, there are different ways to extract text from a web site including using an xml parser and regex and other screen-scraping methods.

 

[Wellington2k]

I found a RSS feed "feed://feeds.feedburner.com/HomestarRunner" minus the "". Now how would I get that information to print on a scroll view?

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+rss+tableview&hl=en&num=50&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=off&tbs=

Look at apple's SeismicXML sample code.

 

[Wellington2k]

That uses XML. I found another one though. Is there a way to only use one view instead of, like, four?

 

[dejo]

That uses XML.

Yes, RSS uses XML.

 

[bredell]

I found a RSS feed

Even if the site has a feed you still need to read their terms. Most sites have restrictions on what you are allowed to do with data from the feed.

 

[Wellington2k]

I read it and it doesn't say I can't use it. I've only found RSS Projects with more than one view and they are very complicated. Any help?

 

[dejo]

Apple's SeismicXML sample only uses one view.

 

[Wellington2k]

You see only one view but in the project there are more.



I know they are all for different parts of the project, but is there a project where it's all in one view?

 

[robbieduncan]

You see only one view but in the project there are more.

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I know they are all for different parts of the project, but is there a project where it's all in one view?

I see 4 classes. That absolutely in no way implies more than one view.

 

[jnoxx]

You see only one view but in the project there are more.

View attachment 299962

I know they are all for different parts of the project, but is there a project where it's all in one view?

Well, if you can't tell apart the NSObject classes and/or of ViewControllers, might be good to first pickup an Development book, before you try to start XML parsing etc.
I think it will be faster reading through the book then posting a question and waiting for reply to every question. Just my thought.

 

[(marc)]

You see only one view but in the project there are more.

View attachment 299962

I know they are all for different parts of the project, but is there a project where it's all in one view?

Hate to bust your bubble but you sound like you should go back to trying to understand the basics. You won't get far by guessing.

 

[Wellington2k]

I do know the basics from C++. It is very different. What would be the best book?

 

[(marc)]

I do know the basics from C++. It is very different. What would be the best book?

C++ is not very different from Objective-C, because both are based on C and object-oriented. There are many threads book recommendation threads in this forum, just search around and I'm sure you'll find something.

 

[robbieduncan]

I do know the basics from C++. It is very different. What would be the best book?

What has a language got to do with it? Your understanding seems to be lacking on the framework more than the language.

 

[Wellington2k]

Where is the best place to learn about frameworks?

 

[jnoxx]

Where is the best place to learn about frameworks?

Tried checking out the stickies at this very forum?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/518968/