Re: How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2013-01-08 18:54 -0800
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Subject	Re: How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ?
From	iMath <redstone-cold@163.com>
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在 2013年1月8日星期二UTC+8下午9时11分30秒，Dave Angel写道：
> On 01/08/2013 07:38 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
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> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:20:28 -0800 (PST), iMath <redstone-cold@163.com>
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> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
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> >> How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ?
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> > 	Chrome is a browser, is it not... If you want to get the text in
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> > Python, you have to write the equivalent of a browser -- something that
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> > parses the returned HTML message, extracting the parts you want.
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> To get a selection, you can either wait till it's copied to the
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> clipboard, and get it from there, or you can write a addon for the
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> application.  Since Chrome accepts addons, I suggest you research that
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> angle.  Probably mozilla.org is the place to start, and function
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> nsISelectionController::GetSelection() might be some place to examine.
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> You might find some hints in
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2671474/range-selection-and-mozilla
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> if you are going to work with the clipboard, realize that it works quite
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> differently from one OS to another, and even from one desktop manager to
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> another.
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> DaveA

It seems need Javascript to work it on .
Unfortunately ，I am only familiar with python .

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