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July 1st, 2009, 02:15 PM
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Save Selected Text in a Variable?
Hi there!
Quick question: is it possible to use Python to read highlighted text, and then save it as a variable within the program? For example, I have a Python robot with text-to-speech capabilities. Would it be possible for me to highlight, say, a paragraph on a website in Firefox, run my Python program, and have it read what's selected? I just need a way to capture the selected text. What is the best way of doing this? Is it even possible? Thanks!
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July 18th, 2009, 08:03 AM
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The easiest way would be to copy the text to the clipboard and have your Python bot read from the clipboard.
The best way ... don't know, something like a FireFox extension, but I don't know where you'd start with that. A bit of a hack might be a bookmarklet that has javascript to send the selected text to a server - and have your Python bot implement a listening server. Probably easier to have the javascript copy the text to the clipboard, really.
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