macOS Dashboard Programming Help

[skipunk]

Hi,

I have two ideas for widgets that I would like to try to implement. However both involve grabbing information off websites. Could someone please tell me how I would go about grabbing info from websites ?

Thanks

 

[jeremy.king]

Hi,

I have two ideas for widgets that I would like to try to implement. However both involve grabbing information off websites. Could someone please tell me how I would go about grabbing info from websites ?

Thanks

Is this information available in an XML format such as an RSS? Or are you looking to parse through the HTML and essentially write a screen scraper?

 

[skipunk]

I essentially want to parse a file and pull out the information that I want, and then display it in a nice way. Both pages I want to get info out of have .php extensions, but when I look at the source the information that I want to grab is all there.

PS. The things I want to do are get the score of my favorite hockey team off the league website, and also to get the snow report information off the local mountains website

 

[jeremy.king]

start here.

http://developer.apple.com/document...utorial/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html

and here

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html

 

[CarlosC]

FYI, we have a message board dedicated to Dashboard programming at:
http://www.idevapps.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Regards,

Carlos Camacho
http://www.idevapps.com