Need to capture data returned to another Website

dboyerco

I'm working with a company that is tracking my vihicle and they have an API that will allow me to log into their database and retrieve the location of my vihicle, which is returned to their website as an XML response.

My question is: Is there way to get the data that is returned in the response so I can use that data on my website. I tried talking to them but they don't have any tech people there. Plus I would rather the response didn't show up on their website.

Here is the code that they have on their website as an example:
[HTML]<form method='post'
action='https://www.sysdevx.com/api/GetAllVehicles.php'>
<input type='text' name='login' value='your_login' />
<input type='text' name='password' value='your_password' />
<input type='submit'>
</form>[/HTML]

And the response is:

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 <response>

<status code="100" msg="Success"/>

<vehicle serial="2002348" date="1170813924" lat="49.2520500" 

  lng="-123.1108800" type="18" address="271 W 21st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Y" 

  speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001452" date="1157654983" lat="49.2521320" 

  lng="-123.1111760" type="17" address="" speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001450" date="1168890892" lat="32.7947333" 

  lng="-117.1367500" type="0" address="8999 Gowdy Ave, San Diego, CA, 92123" 

  speed="0" heading="-1"/>

</response>

drhowarddrfine

Yes, but you would need javascript to do that.

dboyerco

Since you didn't post how to do it with JavaScipt I take it I need to move this question to that forum?

dboyerco

I'm working with a company that is tracking my vihicle and they have an API that will allow me to log into their database and retrieve the location of my vihicle, which is returned to their website as an XML response.

My question is: Is there way to get the data that is returned in the response so I can use that data on my website. I tried talking to them but they don't have any tech people there. Plus I would rather the response didn't show up on their website.

Here is the code that they have on their website as an example:

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<form method='post' 

action='https://www.sysdevx.com/api/GetAllVehicles.php'>

<input type='text' name='login' value='your_login' />

<input type='text' name='password' value='your_password' />

<input type='submit'>

</form>
 
And the response is:

<response>

<status code="100" msg="Success"/>

<vehicle serial="2002348" date="1170813924" lat="49.2520500" 

lng="-123.1108800" type="18" address="271 W 21st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Y" 

speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001452" date="1157654983" lat="49.2521320" 

lng="-123.1111760" type="17" address="" speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001450" date="1168890892" lat="32.7947333" 

lng="-117.1367500" type="0" address="8999 Gowdy Ave, San Diego, CA, 92123" 

speed="0" heading="-1"/>

</response>

drhowarddrfine

This is the html/css forum so, yes, I'll move it.

pbmods

Merged duplicate threads.

gits

Quote:

Originally Posted by dboyerco

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And the response is:

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 <response>

<status code="100" msg="Success"/>

<vehicle serial="2002348" date="1170813924" lat="49.2520500" 

  lng="-123.1108800" type="18" address="271 W 21st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Y" 

  speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001452" date="1157654983" lat="49.2521320" 

  lng="-123.1111760" type="17" address="" speed="0" heading="0"/>

<vehicle serial="2001450" date="1168890892" lat="32.7947333" 

  lng="-117.1367500" type="0" address="8999 Gowdy Ave, San Diego, CA, 92123" 

  speed="0" heading="-1"/>

</response>

hi ...

you may parse through the response with javascript's dom-methods, for example:

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 // get a reference to the response-node

var response = document.getElementsByTagName('response')[0];
 
// get the values you want from the first child-node

var vehicle1_serial = response.childNodes[0].getAttribute('serial');

so you see that you may loop through the childNodes-list and get the interesting things out of the nodes with getAttribute ;)

kind regards

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