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RE: homeseer news script ?


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: homeseer news script ?
  • From: "Amar Nagi" <amar@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:03:06 +0100
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Wrote a small and compact script to speak the daily news headlines
>from
'  Very Quick and simple Script to read off the news
'  headlines from Yahoo.
'  By Amar Nagi (17/07/2002)
'
' Please feel Free to Modify
'
Sub Main
Dim sRawWeb, iPos1,iPos2, sPara, icnt
system.speak "Here are the Main Headlines;"
' Get the Webpage
sRawWeb =   hs.GetURL("www.yahoo.com","",1,80)
'Find the positions in Page
iPos1 = InStr(1,sRawWeb,"In The News")
iPos2= InStr(1,sRawWeb,"News - ")
' Kill some ugly characters and replace with period
sPara = Replace(Mid(sRawWeb,iPos1,iPos2-iPos1),"&#149;;",".")
'Split the String By Period into an array
SNews=Split(sPara,".")
' Walk through the array and speak the headlines
For icnt=0 To UBound(SNews)
  system.speak RTrim(LTrim(SNews(icnt)))
Next
End Sub
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Amar Nagi
      Sent: Tue 16/07/2002 22:47
      To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
      Cc:
      Subject: [ukha_d] homeseer news script ?
     
     
      Anyone have a news script for homeseer or a morning greeting (wakeup) script
     
     



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