Using TCL to recover text from a local website 1

[fhutt]

I have a local access point accessible via wifi. It has an accessible Ip Address at 192.168.91.1.
When this address is placed in the address bar of a browser as

https://192.168.91.1/api/meters/aggregates

a number of text lines appear in the browser.
What I would like to do is to obtain this text using TCL because this text needs to be manipulated to make good sense out of it. I am able to do this with TCL. However, I have no idea how to obtain this text using TCL via an IP address.
Could someone please point me in the right direction?

 

[xwb]

Are you using something like tclcurl to do this?

 

[fhutt]

Unfortunately, I have never heard of tclcurl before.
I looked on the internet and although it looks complicated it might me what I need.
I am unable to find a download site. Could you provide a link?
I am using Windows 7.

 

[xwb]

It is on github

https://github.com/jdc8/tclcurl

It has to be built first.

 

[fhutt]

I think that tclcurl might be too complicated.
I have no experience with the tcl procedure http either.
Would the http procedure resolve and obtain the text on

https://192.168.91.1/api/meters/aggregates?

 

[xwb]

If it begins with 192, the site is local to your network.

Have a look at

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/An+HTTP+robot+in+Tcl

Basically what that does is to examine the HTML generated to see what the cgi call is. It then posts this to get the results back

 

[fhutt]

I found another alternative. Found an application called wget.
It can be downloaded from here:

https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

A manual page can be found here:

https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/1.20.3/wget.html

Here is the snippet of code I used:
set line [exec wget.exe --no-check-certificate -q -O - --connect-timeout=30 -t 3

https://192.168.91.1/api/meters/aggregates

]

This extracts the text from the website. Here I can now obtain the text I require from this website.

Thank you for making me look harder to find a solution.

 

[xwb]

I've only ever used wget on Linux. If you were on Linux, that is what I would have suggested. Didn't know there was a windows version too.

 

[fhutt]

Yes, works fine.