AutoSave current webpage every 30 seconds
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bradsalmon last edited by
Hi all,
I'm new to trying to automate within a web browser so wondered if anyone could offer some advice with regard to saving a webpage (html) every X seconds?Background: I use an external webpage most days which updates itself, hence no need for me to refresh however I miss some information when I am away from the computer. Hence looking to simply download the html for the current view every 30 seconds or so. That way I can write some code within VBA which can extract what I want and show new entries or entries I've not seen etc.
Just stumbling on how to auto download the current view without refreshing the page.
Many thanks,
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@bradsalmon Might be easier to use a third party app for something like that - though honestly every 30 seconds seems excessive.
Some external program could send a Save command to Opera on a timer, but it would save the active page and thus wouldn't save what you want if you view a different tab..
There are several download managers that might (depending on how the page works) be able to do this themselves (regardless of what browser you might use).. The "might" there depends on whether the page uses javascript to render the data you want to capture. If the data is embedded from the server side then the client doesn't matter and a download manager would be perfect. If instead the page uses XmlHttpRequest or similar javascript to get the data in question you'd have to find some address for that external data and try to capture that instead.
