[Nottingham] How to capture text from a Javascript generated web browser panel display?

[Martin]

On 16/02/15 11:40, Paul wrote:
> Would I be right to assume that you cant get the data from a view page
> source ?

Unfortunately not. I see the web page html for the panels, and then
there is a whole load of references to javascript, ".js", "javax"...

Similarly so for inspecting any elements...

:-(


I'm guessing their programming outputs direct to the display...

And they only allow you to view a few lines of ticket at a time!!!

Scrolling down for the next few lines takes a few seconds each time as
the display panel is redrawn at each page-down click...

Cheers,
Martin



> On 16/02/15 11:30, Martin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm fighting a hopelessly unwieldy web browser based "ticketing
> system" from a sub-simian operated "major 'cloud' provider" who take a
> day per ticket entry and we're at 19 ticket entires to try to get some
> data out of them...
> 
> And I'm finally there except the "....." operators have done a
> cut'n'paste into their ticket system that then displays the data in a
> javascript web panel. Looks pretty but totally useless for copying or
> saving anywhere! (All by fiendishly unhelpful design?... No save or
> export buttons...)
> 
> 
> So... Any easy options to circumvent that?
> (Other than screen dumps and OCR?!)
> 
> (And so avoid another 4 days to tease them into doing anything useful!)
> 
> And let this be a moral to you to *NEVER* allow all or /any/ of your
> data to get sucked into someone else's 'cloud'...
> 
> 
> (And no, I'm not that stupid but some other poor naive poor lost souls
> have been...)
> 
> :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin



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