Accessing website data remotely?

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I will be at another location for several weeks and will have access to
a friends computer/internet. I want to have no impact on their hard
drive. They use MS programs like Office, etc. and I use small freeware
programs.

I plan to use a floppy with Popcorn to access my email, any data I save
will be plain text on the floppy.

The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use their
browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data. If I save
the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister viewer to view
the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and edit it there.

But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages as
2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages permit
copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.

What to use that is small enough to include in a floppy that can save
online data as plain text?

Mike Sa
 
ms ([email protected]) schrieb/wrote:
The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use
their browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data.
If I save the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister
viewer to view the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and
edit it there.

But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages
as 2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages
permit copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.
Click to expand...

Try GrabUrl http://www.kiraly.com/software/utilities/graburl/ (35kb)
"GrabURL is a handy console utility for Windows that may be used to
"grab" any web page or image via its URL, and to pipe the resulting
data to standard output."

Usage: C:\>graburl www.anysite.html > site.txt
Then edit site.txt according to your needs.
 
ms said:
I will be at another location for several weeks and will have access
to a friends computer/internet. I want to have no impact on their hard
drive. They use MS programs like Office, etc. and I use small freeware
programs.

I plan to use a floppy with Popcorn to access my email, any data I
save will be plain text on the floppy.

The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use
their browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data.
If I save the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister
viewer to view the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and
edit it there.

But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages
as 2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages
permit copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.

What to use that is small enough to include in a floppy that can save
online data as plain text?

Mike Sa
Click to expand...

1) an ftp client that can ttransfer these pages to a ftp server at home?

2) Maybe use online storage (it is just temporarly)

3) but a 64/128 MB USB drive. will be enoug most of the time. Most
expensive, but worht the investment IMHO

4) Zzzzzip!!! ?

Just some quick Ideas

MightyKitten
 
Andreas said:
ms ([email protected]) schrieb/wrote:
snip

Try GrabUrl http://www.kiraly.com/software/utilities/graburl/ (35kb)
"GrabURL is a handy console utility for Windows that may be used to
"grab" any web page or image via its URL, and to pipe the resulting
data to standard output."

Usage: C:\>graburl www.anysite.html > site.txt
Then edit site.txt according to your needs.
Click to expand...

Thanks. I just tried it, it still needs to find the destination file on
my hard drive. It will maybe do the job, but it seems somewhat complex
to me. Hope there is a small GUI solution.

Mike Sa
 
ms ([email protected]) schrieb/wrote:
Thanks. I just tried it, it still needs to find the destination file
on my hard drive. It will maybe do the job, but it seems somewhat
complex to me. Hope there is a small GUI solution.
Click to expand...

o Copy graburl to C:\Windows\Command
o Create the file c:\windows\command\getanded.bat using Notepad
and add the following lines:

start /w c:\windows\command\graburl > c:\windows\temp\site.txt
notepad c:\windows\temp\site.txt

o Start - Run - getanded
 
The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use their
browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data. If I save
the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister viewer to view
the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and edit it there.
Click to expand...
But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages as
2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages permit
copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.
Click to expand...
What to use that is small enough to include in a floppy that can save
online data as plain text?
Click to expand...

Why not simply save the web pages as text ? No other program(s)
required.


Regards, John.

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I will be at another location for several weeks and will have access to
a friends computer/internet. I want to have no impact on their hard
drive. They use MS programs like Office, etc. and I use small freeware
programs.

I plan to use a floppy with Popcorn to access my email, any data I save
will be plain text on the floppy.

The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use their
browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data. If I save
the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister viewer to view
the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and edit it there.

But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages as
2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages permit
copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.

What to use that is small enough to include in a floppy that can save
online data as plain text?

Mike Sa
Click to expand...
Using your friend's 'puter save all your urls to a special folder in
favourites and when you are heading home just copy the urls to your
floppy. Daily work: create a temp folder in windows explorer. Use
subfolders for various projects. Zip folders and copy to floppy when
going home,
POKO
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P. Keenan - Webmaster
Web Page Design
Manitoulin Island, Canada
http://manitoulinislandwebdesign.it-mate.co.uk/
(e-mail address removed)
 
John said:
< snip
I don't want to save html coded pages as


Why not simply save the web pages as text ? No other program(s)
required.
Click to expand...
As noted above, some web pages do permit that, but with some, copy does
not work at all, so I have to save the web page to my hard drive. Then
I convert to plain text. OK at home, but a hassle at someone else's
computer. I'm used to freeware, trying to do things with MS Office is no
fun.

Mike Sa
 
Keenan P. said:
Using your friend's 'puter save all your urls to a special folder in
favourites and when you are heading home just copy the urls to your
floppy. Daily work: create a temp folder in windows explorer. Use
subfolders for various projects. Zip folders and copy to floppy when
going home,
POKO
--
P. Keenan - Webmaster
Web Page Design
Manitoulin Island, Canada
http://manitoulinislandwebdesign.it-mate.co.uk/
(e-mail address removed)
Click to expand...

That's a good idea, assuming some of the news sites archive all their
articles. My experience on the net says- if you see it and like it, save
it, you may never see it again.

Mike Sa
 
MightyKitten said:
ms wrote: snip

1) an ftp client that can ttransfer these pages to a ftp server at home?

2) Maybe use online storage (it is just temporarly)

3) but a 64/128 MB USB drive. will be enoug most of the time. Most
expensive, but worht the investment IMHO

4) Zzzzzip!!! ?

Just some quick Ideas

MightyKitten
Click to expand...

Regarding (1) above, Pablo's FTP server was noted several days ago.

How would I use something like that, to do what I need?

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
As noted above, some web pages do permit that, but with some, copy does
not work at all, so I have to save the web page to my hard drive. Then
I convert to plain text.
Click to expand...

Not copy. File > Save As > Text File.

I've not heard of that being prevented. Even if it can occur, override same
as with the other: don't give the site permission to run scripting through
your browser.

If perhaps you also sometimes wish to save not full web pages to text --
and instead only selected excerpts. For that, I'd advise installing "IE
Text Archiver" (6k) on their machine, for the duration of your visit.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ietextarchiver.html
 
omega said:
Not copy. File > Save As > Text File.

I've not heard of that being prevented. Even if it can occur, override same
as with the other: don't give the site permission to run scripting through
your browser.

If perhaps you also sometimes wish to save not full web pages to text --
and instead only selected excerpts. For that, I'd advise installing "IE
Text Archiver" (6k) on their machine, for the duration of your visit.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ietextarchiver.html
Click to expand...

Thanks, Karen. I meant the context menu, but save as would work, too. I
assume they have IE 6, so that would have save as text.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
I will be at another location for several weeks and will have access to
a friends computer/internet. I want to have no impact on their hard
drive. They use MS programs like Office, etc. and I use small freeware
programs.

I plan to use a floppy with Popcorn to access my email, any data I save
will be plain text on the floppy.

The problem is data on web sites I normally view daily. When I use their
browser to go to a website, I see a page with html-coded data. If I save
the page to the friend's hard drive, I can use the Lister viewer to view
the html file, then copy plain text to my floppy and edit it there.

But I may not be able to do that, and I don't see how to use Lister on
the net to view an online page. I don't want to save html coded pages as
2 weeks of data will be too much for floppies. Some web pages permit
copying text directly into Clipboard, some do not.

What to use that is small enough to include in a floppy that can save
online data as plain text?

Mike Sa
Click to expand...

Not sure if this will help but if you go to the webpage, and can copy
the page by (in IE view > source and in Mozilla view > page source
....edit, select all, copy;) then paste the html code on this page:
http://www.jamesrking.com/left_brain/online_tools/html_stripper.asp
it will give you the page sans HTML. (and nicely formatted from what I
can tell)

Then you can copy that and paste it to a text file for your viewing
pleasure later. You can save a ton of space by zipping it :)

HTH
 
Anti_Freak_Machine said:
ms wrote:
snip

Not sure if this will help but if you go to the webpage, and can copy
the page by (in IE view > source and in Mozilla view > page source
...edit, select all, copy;) then paste the html code on this page:
http://www.jamesrking.com/left_brain/online_tools/html_stripper.asp
it will give you the page sans HTML. (and nicely formatted from what I
can tell)

Then you can copy that and paste it to a text file for your viewing
pleasure later. You can save a ton of space by zipping it :)

HTH
Click to expand...

Thanks, that ought to work fine.

This thread has had some good ideas.

Mike Sa
 
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