I want to know how I can read other websites file structure.
For example if the website is : www.test.com, I want to retrieve how many files they have on their server and which ones are html and which is css. I don't want to edit them or anything just count.
example:
root folder > index.html , about.html (2 html files)
root folder > scripts > main.js (1 javascript)
The folder names may vary so it should search entire structure.
I have tried google but I get results that want's to access the actual file content that I do not want.
I am using javascript.
This can't really be done.
You don't know that a file exists on some other server unless someone links to it. I have a picture of a giraffe on my site, but unless I tell you where it is you won't be able to find it (or count it).
That said, if you are using Node.js, you can use something like the crawler library to visit every public page of a site and open every link, then count the amount of files you see.
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I have a limited hosting server. I want to read the filetree (all files and folders) and create a hyperlink to them on a basic html page.
For clarity, I'm using Keybase, am publicly sharing files, but want to list them on an index.html page, not use their site's "filetree"
https://keybase.pub/example_user (keybase filetree)
https://example_user.keybase.pub (the index.html file)
The html file is in the root directory and I want to display all the (pdf) files in /subdir (and their sub-directories)
This isn't a "real" webserver. I'm looking for something easy and simple like a FOR loop on load within html
Thanks.
What you are trying to do is known as "screen scraping". If you do some googling on the keywords "javascript screen scraping" you will find lots of information and examples.
Basically, You fire off an AJAX request to retrieve the content of a page, parse that content to obtain the data your looking for, and then display that data in your page.
I have this scenario to reproduce an HTML implementation for 100+ images of different names.
myPackageDirectory
- index.html
- some_name.png
- script/css files
Currently, I have to manually do the following
pick each image file from pool,
place it into the
packageDirectory, then
rename it to static img.png, then
package(zip) the iteration.
I wish to skip renaming part from xyz.png --> img.png by something like <img src="*.png" /> kind of thing.
"Client-side method"
I've used python to automate iterations, but am looking for some html/js way to pick file just by extension
It seems you want to obtain a list of file names on the server with the .png extension.
If your server allows directory listing, you can do this with client side JavaScript. Otherwise, you'll need a server side solution.
See the answers here: Easiest way to get list of files in the server directory
I am creating browser based video editing tool. I want a user to first download a ~70mb javascript file and store it somewhere on his computer. I want to link that file when my website is opened. How can I achieve that.
EDIT
What i meant is that there are various files like js1.js,js2.js... all sums upto 70mb . So i will offer a zip folder to download and only link js1 or js2 file etc depending on the effects user wish to apply
i am sorry to inform you but i think there is something really wrong with what you are trying to do.
A "solution" would be to just cache the javascript on the user's browser so any subsequent requests parse the cache instead of requesting the resource again from the server.
You should know however that if you are in need to download ~70mb of a javascript file you are doing something wrong. I have a whole web app project that when published the total size is around 60mb, all files required to properly run included, and its a damn big codebase in there.
I find it very hard to believe there is ever a need for a single javascript file to be that big, in any case maybe a simple caching should do the trick
That is actually done automatically. Once you add a <script> tag with a link to a local js file (also stored on the server) the file is loaded automatically.
See HTML <script> src Attribute for more information on that.
You can only reference to js files on the server. Files on the server could look like this:
index.html
somefancyjsfile.js
You can then reference from inside your html file to the js file via the <script> tag.
I'm not sure though if the size is not a bit too much...
I have a html pages prototype. If I open any .html file in browser, it shows index.html, page1.html etc at the brows...
What my boss wants is, she dont want clients to feel these are not .html pages. Instead it has to rename either index.html to Index or HomePage...
Please refer below image for clear idea...
I do know this can be done by JSP/PHP etc... But, these are all just static html pages and some times we will be sending all these html pages to client directly. In that case, we cannot ask client to install server... there is a tricky part :(
I know this is weird, but Boss is always right :)
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I have a lot of .asciidoc files (~50). Basically, I want to create a website that can show the content of all these files on the webpage.
Till now, everything that I found basically converts the .asciidoc file into an individual .html file. This means I'll have ~50 .html files which I don't really want to do.
Is there anyway so that I can have a single webpage and somehow insert the contents of the .asciidoc file in the backend? Like PHP?
Sure, this can be done, but not by asciidoctor itself. Take a look at the OpenDevise landing page. You can see they're loading the files through the Asciidoctor API. You could do the same thing with shelling out or using the JavaScript port (asciidoctorjs). The main idea is to have something else generating a scaffold or template and then calling out to asciidoctor somehow to get the content.