Grabbing information help

[Nemo296]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
Create a calculator that grabs information from the internet/a website.

What is the problem you are having?
I can't figure out how turing grabs information from the internet (If that's even possible)

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I looked in the turing help thing, the index search too.


Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)

Turing:

const COSMIC := 120 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const DEATH := 375 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const BLOOD := 377 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const SOUL := 243 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const LAW := 279 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const MIND := 5 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. const NATURE := 234 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet. var COSTOFB, COSTOFBE, RUNE : int := 0 var BOLT, BOLT2, STARTOVER : string var TOTAL : real := 0 var KEY : string (1) var DONOTDO : boolean := false put "Hi, this is a program to help you figure out what your hourly wages are for enchanting any bolt." put "" put "Press any key..." getch (KEY) put "" proc Program     put "What type of bolt are you enchanting?"     get BOLT     if Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "ru" then         RUNE := DEATH         COSTOFB := 766 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 842 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "on" then         RUNE := BLOOD         COSTOFB := 8723 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 8852 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "dr" then         RUNE := SOUL         COSTOFB := 6936 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 7179 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "di" then         RUNE := LAW         COSTOFB := 1551 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 1669 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "op" then         RUNE := 0         COSTOFB := 15 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 26 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "sa" then         RUNE := MIND         COSTOFB := 107 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 148 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "ja" then         put "Cannot find Jade"     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "pe" then         RUNE := 0         COSTOFB := 77 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 95 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "em" then         RUNE := NATURE         COSTOFB := 482 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 558 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     elsif Str.Lower (BOLT (1 .. 2)) = "re" then         RUNE := 0         COSTOFB := 91 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.         COSTOFBE := 95 %<------ Trying to grab this information from the internet.     else         put "That bolt does not exist"         DONOTDO := true     end if     put ""     if DONOTDO = false then         TOTAL := ((((COSTOFBE * 10) - (COSTOFB * 10)) - COSMIC - RUNE) * 1400) / 1000         put "You will make ", TOTAL, "k/h making ", BOLT, " bolts."     end if     put ""     put "Do you wish to use this again? y or n..."     get STARTOVER     put "" end Program loop     Program     exit when Str.Lower (STARTOVER (1)) = "n" end loop if Str.Lower (STARTOVER (1)) = "n" then     put "Thanks for using Nemo2966's bolt enchanter Calculator."     put "I hope you enjoyed." end if

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1 and 4.1.1

[Euphoracle]

Well, you can use turing's net library to grab stuff (maybe, idk) it's documented in the help file. If you aren't grabbing plain-text, you're going to have to parse it though.

[Turing_Gamer]

Is this runescape?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Looks like it. Plus it says the hourly rate for enchanting blots and has all the runes for it. Sounds like Runescape to me.

[SNIPERDUDE]

All the runes sound right.
Also, doesn't runeHQ have all those calculators?

[USEC_OFFICER]

It actually looks like they don't. They should get one. Seems easy enough. Unlike the level calulators, the information is all there, just need an equation. (Can't spell)

PS: Unless we actually answer the guy's question, this will probably get moved to Off Topic.

[TheGuardian001]

Well, it would probably be easier for them to simply hard code the values in. Retrieving information from the contents of a webpage is a pretty complicated thing to do, and Turing's Net commands really aren't built for anything outside of basic data streaming.

Unless you can find somewhere that hosts the data needed in a text file, I wouldn't even bother trying this in Turing.

[SNIPERDUDE]

I believe retrieving price information for runes is especially difficult, everything is in java on Runescape's site - so accessing something like the GE would be an obstacle not really worth the fight.
Maybe a quick menu that allows the user to enter (into text boxes provided) the prices of each.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Either that or switch to Java and see if Runescape will allow you to get the prices of their website. You could also factor in the rising or lowering prices. They have that on their website.

[SNIPERDUDE]

Well, this is where they'd have to grab it from.

[mirhagk]

Theoritically this could be done, have the url (after the item being searched), get the data for that url using Net.OpenURLConnection and then just know exactly where you have to look to get the price value. It'd work alright as long as runescape didn't change the way their website worked (I believe there are tons of sites that do this process, just with javascript or something instead).

Also to be honest I never actually tried to Net.OpenURLConnection successfully, kinda tried once but it didn't work.