Help with parsing return of a GetURL call

[logbuilder]

Hello all,
I'm trying to get the status of my Blue Iris system into a HS device value. The following does just as expected which is to return several values, one of which is the profile. I've been running it as an immediate command in an event. I really need to get that profile value (1 in this example) into a device but I don't know how to get the return of the GetURL and then parse into a variable.

Here is the command command:
&hs.GetURL("http://192.168.2.3:1234","/admin?&user=myuser&pw=mypass",TRUE,80)

Here is the return (seen when I run it from a browser):
signal=green
profile=1
lock=1

Any help will be appreciated!
Robert

[zwolfpack]

Give this script a try. The parsing is very primitive but should work in this case.

Choose either one of the methods to set the device value, and delete or comment out the one you don't use.

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Sub Main(p As String)

    ' set these as appropriate
    Dim host As String = "192.168.1.118"
    Dim page As String = "/admin?&user=myuser&pw=mypass"
    Dim port As Integer = 8000

    Dim strip_tags As Boolean = False   ' don't strip HTML tags
    Dim resp As String = hs.GetURL(host, page, strip_tags, port)

    ' parse response for "profile" keyword
    Dim token As String() = Regex.Split(resp, "\W+")
​    Dim profile As Integer = 0
    For ix As Integer = token.GetLowerBound(0) To token.GetUpperBound(0) - 1
        If token(ix).ToLower = "profile" Then profile = CInt(token(ix + 1))
    Next

    ' assign the parsed value to the device -
    ' either by device reference
    Dim dvRef As Integer = 1234
    hs.SetDeviceValueByRef(dvRef, profile, True)

    ' or by device name
    Dim dvName As String = "My Device Name"
    hs.SetDeviceValueByName(dvName, profile)

End Sub​

[logbuilder]

Wow, thanks much! I'll try it tomorrow and will report back.

[logbuilder]

zwolfpack

Thanks so very much for taking your time and creating this script! It worked perfectly. This was my last item needed to be resolved before I deprecated the (now unsupported) Blue Iris plugin. I now use only HTTP commands between HS3 and BI4.

[zwolfpack]

Great!

[risquare]

You may also try Big6 plug-in that can send out HTTP GET, PUT, POST (your choice) and parse the response. You can set it up to create/update HS4 devices based on the response.