I'm trying to download all the questions and answers form users profile , but there is a problem , if user has big number of questions that I have to click on "Show more" to expand that list.If I try to download for example this persons questions and answers : http://ask.fm/UnaRamekic (random choice) , I'll get only those that are shown , those that are displayed after I click show more are not retrieved with get request.How can I get all the questions with ICS or Indy components. Thanks.
My code:
procedure TForm1.sButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
With HttpCli1 do begin
URL := sedit1.Text;
RequestVer := '1.1';
RcvdStream := TMemoryStream.Create;
try
Get;
except
ShowMessage('There has been an error , check your internet connection !');
RcvdStream.Free;
Exit;
end;
RcvdStream.Seek(0,0);
Memo1.Lines.LoadFromStream(RcvdStream);
RcvdStream.Free;
end;
end;
Warning:
This approach is lame and quite dangerous. It's posting the form data similarly like the Show more button does, but it uses a while loop (to receive all pages), which repeats until the exact constant in response is found (in code it's the LastPageResponse
constant), so when the response content of the page will be changed some time and that constant won't be in the response, you will find yourself in the infinite loop.
In the GetAllQuestions
function you can specify:
The GetAllQuestions
function returns a base user's page, followed by line breaks separated content in a range from the base page to all pages from the time and page you specify. Forgot to notice, that the additional content you'll need to parse in a different way than a base page, since it's not a HTML content.
uses
IdHTTP;
implementation
function GetAllQuestions(const AUser: string; AFromDate: TDateTime;
AStartPage: Integer = 1): string;
var
Response: string;
LastPage: Integer;
TimeString: string;
HTTPClient: TIdHTTP;
Parameters: TStrings;
const
LineBreaks = sLineBreak + sLineBreak;
LastPageResponse = '$("#more-container").hide();';
begin
Result := '';
HTTPClient := TIdHTTP.Create(nil);
try
Result := HTTPClient.Get('http://ask.fm/' + AUser) + LineBreaks;
Parameters := TStringList.Create;
try
LastPage := AStartPage;
TimeString := FormatDateTime('ddd mmm dd hh:nn:ss UTC yyyy', AFromDate);
Parameters.Add('time=' + TimeString);
Parameters.Add('page=' + IntToStr(LastPage));
while LastPage <> -1 do
begin
Parameters[1] := 'page=' + IntToStr(LastPage);
Response := HTTPClient.Post('http://ask.fm/' + AUser + '/more',
Parameters);
if Copy(Response, Length(Response) - Length(LastPageResponse) + 1,
MaxInt) = LastPageResponse
then
LastPage := -1
else
LastPage := LastPage + 1;
Result := Result + Response + LineBreaks;
end;
finally
Parameters.Free;
end;
finally
HTTPClient.Free;
end;
end;
And the usage:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
try
Memo1.Text := GetAllQuestions('TLama', Now);
except
on E: Exception do
ShowMessage(E.Message);
end;
end;