How do you save an html page on your local hd?

rsalah · August 26th, 2003, 07:32 AM

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows this:
You open an html page opened by javascript, and you want to save it to your local hard drive, but not with the menu File->Save as, but rather, automatically, that is, page opened, page saved on C:

Can anyone please help? It's very important.

If you can include a piece of source code for this, it would really be helpful. Thanks!

pgtips · August 26th, 2003, 08:35 AM

OTMH the only way I can think to do this is Windows/IE specific. You can use document.documentElement.outerHTML to get the HTML source for the page, then use the FileSystemObject to save it off to disk. You'll need Low security settings to get this to work without a prompt. Example below:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    function SaveToDisk(sPath)
    {
        var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
        var fileDest = fso.CreateTextFile(sPath, true);
        if (fileDest)
        {
           fileDest.Write(document.documentElement.outerHTML);
           fileDest.close();
        }
        else
        {
           alert("unable to create file " + sPath);
        }

    }        
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY onload="SaveToDisk('c:\\temp\\123.htm');">
<P>The rest of the page is here...</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

hth
Phil

rsalah · August 27th, 2003, 11:08 AM

Thank you so much, Phil! This was very helpful!~

rsalah · August 27th, 2003, 02:51 PM

This script is for saving its own html code, however, could it be modified for it to save, say another page? For instance, if i have an URL like yahoo.com or whatever, could this script be modified as to save that URL somehow?

Thanks so much!,
Roberto

pgtips · August 28th, 2003, 02:58 AM

Yes and No :)

You would have to find another method to get the HTML source of the page from the other URL becuase it would obviously not be in document.documentElement.outerHTML.

Maybe you could put the URL you want as the src of a hidden IFRAME and refer to that instead? Or maybe scrape it with Microsoft.XMLHTTP component?

rgds
Phil

rsalah · August 28th, 2003, 07:13 AM

Phil, if you have a piece of code of the IFRAME usage example or how to scrap the web page with the Microsoft.XMLHTTP I'd be very helful, because I don't know much about JavaScript, and I belive these are not very standard things to do in JavaScript.

Thanks,

Roberto

pgtips · August 28th, 2003, 08:15 AM

Here you go Roberto, this piece of code uses the XMLHTTP object from MSXML v4.

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    function SaveToDisk(sUrl, sPath)
    {
        var x = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0");
        x.open("GET", sUrl, false);
        x.send();
        if (x.status == 200)
        {
          var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
          var fileDest = fso.CreateTextFile(sPath, true, true);
          if (fileDest)
          {
             fileDest.Write(x.responseText);
             fileDest.close();
          }
          else
          {
             alert("unable to create file " + sPath);
          }
        }
        else
        {
          alert("HTTP error status " + x.status + " from " + sUrl);
        }

    }        
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY onload="SaveToDisk('http://www.p2p.wrox.com', 'c:\\temp\\123.htm');">
<P>The rest of the page is here...</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

rsalah · August 28th, 2003, 10:37 AM

I get this error message: Line 6, char 9: "Error: Automation server can't create object", is there a possibility to do something about this? Like configuring my explorer to be able to create that object or something?

joefawcett · August 29th, 2003, 02:29 AM

It depends where that line is. If it's where the "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0" is created it's likely you don't have the classes installed, try changing to "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0" and if this doesn't work install xml core services version 4 from Microsoft. If it's where the "FileSystemObject" is created you have your security settings too high for this. Most users won't allow you to save to their hard drive, if you are in control of settings etc., maybe this is for an intranet page and the status bar shows the page as in the trusted sites or local intranet, then change the settings in the security section of Tools | Internet options to enable ActiveX not marked safe for scripting.

--

Joe

rsalah · August 29th, 2003, 01:12 PM

Thanks, Joe, worked just fine with the 3.0.

Best regards,
Roberto