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If I understand what you want, the easy thing may be to save the page as an HTML file. Then bring up the HTML file and use the table reading commands of the screen reader to do it. There are other ways to scrape the page such as using Beautiful Soup and python,
but this requires programming.
From: Martin McCormick <martin.m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2025 2:31 PM
Cc: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: firefox or chromium Capturing A Table to a Text File
Thank you. I am familiar with that technique from lynx searches.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.Sometimes you find a tmp file from lynx when one is listening to something. That long name is what you get from the mktemp function so I will give that a try if there isn't anything else Rudy Vener <salt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You could try locating the temporary files containing the rendered data > created by firefox. > First create a script containing the command > > grep -l "some.*unique.*string.*in.*the.*display" * > > Call this script stringhunt. > Then cd to locations where firefox may be creating its tmp files, such as > /tmp for example > and run stringhunt. > > If you get a filename, run stringhunt > ~/myfile > > Now myfile contains the name of the rendered temp file which will > probably be long, complicated andtotally meaningless. > > If this actually works you can manipulate the file, examine it or edit it > with something like > vi $(cat ~/myfile) > or other tools to try extracting the actual data. > > On the other hand this might not work because I haven't a clue if firefox > even creates temp files of rendered text. > For all I know it is all done in RAM and no files are created. > > Good luck, and may the farce be with you. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx. |