Hi all. I’m trying to get all of the links from a webpage, so I can analyze it. If a image, document, etc has an item that is linked (the page shows a image for example, but the real image is linked to it) I want the linked item. I can’t seem to get it to work, and reading from other threads, it …

Open method opens the file and goes to the end ready to append data. You need to check the obvious parts of the FolderItem prior to opening. Such as .exists .isWritable.

We’re going to need more information to help. Such as: Does your web request result in any downloaded content bring displayed in the text area? Does the output file get created? Does anything at all get written to it?

[image] Michael Cebasek: Once upon a time I remember, maybe incorrectly, that TextOutputStream.Append was the command, but in the documentation, I can’t find it. This item was deprecated in version 2019r2. Please use TextOutputStream.Open as a replacement. easy to find with Better Xojo Help …

Thanks for the information! I’ll be looking there.

The text file I create does get stuff written to it, the links in the main drop off page. However, if there are links to other places with the true image, not the thumbnail, I don’t get them. Thank you for the response.

[image] Michael Cebasek: :space:\s”“'>]+.(?:jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp))” What about webp (as image file type). (there can be other possibles File Extensions for images) That said: a. I do not understand your code, b. why don’t you search for “<img src="” ? (or simply “<img ” if src="` can be …

Hi Emile. I didn’t use <img src=” because I didn’t know about it. Thanks for the information. I will try and advise. Regards

It may be <img src=’ too. Each is allowed.

That is why I gave a link to an html reference site (w3schools)…

Appending to a text file

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Jean-Yves_Pochez (Jean-Yves Pochez) August 1, 2026, 4:09pm 4

This item was deprecated in version 2019r2. Please use TextOutputStream.Open as a replacement.
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