Get URL of image source

[moberry]

Hi. I am trying to pull the URL of a certain image when using the ie.getelementby... method.

Using the following I can access the url I need but it's surrounded by html code that is proving difficult for me to seperate out:

test = ie.document.getElementById("recaptcha_image").InnerHtml

this is what debug.print test shows me:


<IMG style="DISPLAY: block" alt="reCAPTCHA challenge image" src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_VuseNxC9vqebkGvR3AamjyyeAaPVUSkJcCkZ6fVvhQbxIOC8YiIZHV9p6-Ay-09daLWUf3BSIeYIHqczZVIKAhdFR_HnqTlEMUXNga81zlDAIJ2fwwM9qMEgLxkXM568OSGCvuiQn-QVI6Ob7y1RWKXpMEjIMA" width=300 height=57>

does anyone have any suggestions or a completely different way I should be looking at the image source?


Just for clarity, I'm pulling an image from a site and pasting it into a specified cell. I already have part 2 working but I have to pass in the necessary url. If I paste in the url from getelementbyid (manually extracting it) the correct image shows up in excel.


I don't believe im violating any terms of service regarding captcha as im still requiring a person to type in the response.


thanks in advance!

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

The URL is the part between double quotes.

 

[BiocideJ]

You should be able to use this to pull out the image URL.

imgURL = Mid(test, InStr(1, test, Chr(34)) + 1, InStr(InStr(1, test, Chr(34)) + 1, test, Chr(34)) - (InStr(1, test, Chr(34)) + 1))

this pulls everything between the first and second quotation mark [Chr(34)].

 

[Norie]

Use the src attribute/property of the image to get the URL.

test = ie.document.getElementById("recaptcha_image").src

 

[BiocideJ]

Use the src attribute/property of the image to get the URL.

test = ie.document.getElementById("recaptcha_image").src

Nice. I don't use the IE objects very often so if this works it is clearly much simpler.

 

[moberry]

The URL is the part between double quotes.

I hope the sarcasm is good hearted...

 

[Norie]

It'll only work if getElementByID returns an image element, or another type of element that has src as a propert, eg video, audio.

 

[moberry]

Use the src attribute/property of the image to get the URL.

test = ie.document.getElementById("recaptcha_image").src

Yeah i tried .src but I get:

"Run-time error '438':

Object doesn't support this property of method"



i dont get the above error with .innerhtml

 

[moberry]

It'll only work if getElementByID returns an image element, or another type of element that has src as a propert, eg video, audio.

so the problem is that I am using the wrong definition for the "test" variable or is it that if I set the image as an element I won't be able to extract the source url?





I tried messing around with some find and replace type of stuff to grab the url from the test string that I had but its got quotations in it that was screwing things up.


thanks for the help

 

[Norie]

Does ie.document.getElementById("recaptcha_image") return an image?

What's the entire HTML for the node?

You can post it here if you enclose it in

tabs.