Html getting data from other sites

[shashank_hi]

Hi, is it possible that html get text data from other servers in the same manner as it can get images from other servers. If not, i suppose i'll have to use a server script. Is there any script that runs universally on all servers?

[Filipe]

There's no built-in way to do this.

There is also no script that will run "universally" -- but any script you'd get that could run on your server would have to be customized to grab the particular text you want anyway (unless you're planning to swipe the whole page, which has badness written all over it).

If you know anything about coding, there are a lot of useful functions that can help you write one of these scripts yourself. If you know PHP, you can use the "fopen()" function to open remote URLs. Most system languages allow you to run system commands, so usually you can run "wget" on most Unix-based systems and parse the output from the retrieved page.