macOS Simple applescript to check for text string on webpage

[acribb]

I'm looking for an applescript that searches a web page for a specific text string. So far, I have used curl to read in the webpage source, but now i'm not sure how to read that text into a variable to parse for the specific string.

Thanks for any help.

**edit** All I need to use is 'contains'

 

[mwpeters8182]

If you're using curl, you might as well just use grep to search for the string.

curl | grep [string] That should return all instances of the string in the text.

 

[acribb]

If you're using curl, you might as well just use grep to search for the string.

curl | grep [string] That should ret...hen the web page does not say 'out of stock')

 

[jen234]

You may also want to consider using Python, which these days seems to be the low-level language of choice or web based queries. Tons of libraries available.