OBEX Listing with all objects and links

Ron Czapala

Attachment not found.I wrote a little VBScript to open the OBEX web page (all objects sorted by object name) and then parse the DOM (Document Object Model) creating a small HTML file which has the link to each object.

You can save the HTML file on your PC, open it with your browser (double-click the file in Windows explorer) and search text and click the links.

It only shows the same info as the OBEX page (no descriptions) but it might be useful to some people - at least until a Search Capability is added.

To open a local HTML file in Chrome, hit CTRL-O and select the file from the dialog box.

EDIT: The improved version is located at http://ronczap.home.insightbb.com/OBEX.htm
and shows descriptions (which the browser can search on).

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Thanks Ron!

I've been using this URL: http://obex.parallax.com/projects?field_category_tid=All&items_per_page=All , then CTRL-F to find the filename I want.

Jeff

Mike G

There's also Google site search

site:obex.parallax.com [search item]

Ron Czapala

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »

Thanks Ron!

I've been using this URL: http://obex.parallax.com/projects?field_category_tid=All&items_per_page=All , then CTRL-F to find the filename I want.

Jeff

That's the page I grabbed the table from but I wanted to have a local copy. I intended to browse to each object and extract the description but gave it up for now...

Ron Czapala

Mike G wrote: »

There's also Google site search

site:obex.parallax.com [search item]

That won't work until google rescans obex.parallax.com - not sure how often that happens.

The object numbers were not preserved during the conversion. That's why I wrote my script...

Depending on how Google adds/updates their references, it might leave links using the original number and get messy.

Parallax can request Google to "crawl" their site
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1352276

Non-owners can also request the site be crawled.

Publison

Ron Czapala wrote: »

I wrote a little VBScript to open the OBEX web page (all objects sorted by object name) and then parse the DOM (Document Object Model) creating a small HTML file which has the link to each object.

You can save the HTML file on your PC, open it with your browser (double-click the file in Windows explorer) and search text and click the links.

It only shows the same info as the OBEX page (no descriptions) but it might be useful to some people - at least until a Search Capability is added.

To open a local HTML file in Chrome, hit CTRL-O and select the file from the dialog box.

Thanks for that Ron. Very helpful.

Jim