How to copy text from "protected" pages

[Anonymous]

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup to
block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

 

[Captain Paralytic]

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup to
block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

Turn Javascript off?
View source?
Use a text only browser?
Diagnostic tools?

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup to
block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

Just to underscore the *real* fact that only way to "protect" content on
the web is to *not* put it there in the first place, most "protection"
is subverted by disabling JavaScript.

 

[dorayme]

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup to
block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

Just do this, it is a guaranteed solution. Post a URL here and
wait. You won't need to wait long. There are more Sherlocks here
(they like to call each other Bruce though) than you can poke a
stick at.

 

[Anonymous]

Use a real browser.

Firefox is not a real browser?

Or, give us an example of a protected page. Likely, it'd be by
disabling Javascript. or by viewing / saving the source.

Example article: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/supremes-epa-actions-
outrageous/

(Or any article on the newly changed wnd.com site.)

Disabling Javascript does not do it.

Saving the source involves saving tons of html crud that is
intertwined in the article.

 

[P E Schoen]

"Anonymous" wrote in message

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup
to block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

From a thread in November 2011:

In a vain attempt to prevent copying the lyrics...

I found that saving it "As HTML" from IE9 converts the escape characters to
plain text, and then you can just extract that (which includes the HTML tags
for formatting).

It is effective for keeping the usual customers from lifting the content
easily.

Paul

 

[Andy]

How does one select and copy text from Web pages that are setup to
block one from doing this?

I do not care to save entire pages each time.

If they're using a script to disable the right-click, just highlight the
text you want to copy and press Ctrl-C to copy and then Ctrl-V to paste.


Andy

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Firefox is not a real browser?


Example article: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/supremes-epa-actions-
outrageous/

(Or any article on the newly changed wnd.com site.)

Disabling Javascript does not do it.

Saving the source involves saving tons of html crud that is
intertwined in the article.

What's your problem?


World Net Daily -- Bob Unruh -- 1-9-2012

http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/supremes-epa-actions-outrageous/

The government’s actions in a dispute between the Environmental
Protection Agency and a husband and wife targeted by the agency when
they bought a residential lot in Idaho and started building their dream
home are both “outrageous” and “very strange.”

There were comments today from justices on the U.S. Supreme Court about
the Environmental Protection Agency’s actions in a fight with Mike and ...

 

[Tim Streater]

Example article: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/supremes-epa-actions-
outrageous/

Would you be kind enough, in future, to put < and > around URLs such as
this that are likely to spread over two or more lines.

Thank you.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

What's your problem?

None here either, in multiple browsers. Even with JavaScript enabled.
Copy away!!

I will say I copied and pasted in batches, to bypass the intermingled
images, movies, and stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

If they're using a script to disable the right-click, just highlight the
text you want to copy and press Ctrl-C to copy and then Ctrl-V to paste.


Andy

The pages do not allow one to highlight text.

Ctrl-C, etc., does not work.

 

[Anonymous]

"Anonymous" wrote in message



From a thread in November 2011:



I found that saving it "As HTML" from IE9 converts the escape characters to
plain text, and then you can just extract that (which includes the HTML tags
for formatting).

It is effective for keeping the usual customers from lifting the content
easily.

Paul

Ha! It worked!

I never used IE. It never occured to me to try it.

IE saves the page with an MHT extension. When opened with IE the file
is in unprotected plain text.

Thanks!

 

[dorayme]

Would you be kind enough, in future, to put < and > around URLs such as
this that are likely to spread over two or more lines.

Fair enough but it is a fraught subject this. It does not always
work even then. What would be really good would be for
newsreaders to auto convert quietly and quickly the url to a tiny
of some kind and to give this as an alternative.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

The pages do not allow one to highlight text.

Ctrl-C, etc., does not work.

Not what I experienced, selection and copies with no problem...maybe
some extension that you have installed?

 

[mannu4u4u]

Great trick for this

Here is a new trick for this

hackitparadise.in/2012/09/how-to-copy-juicy-information-from.html

 

[Triathlete]

Copying text from web pages

Quick and easy answer to this which is above board, without going to any suspicious websites or using dodgy download tools.

• Select the text you wish to copy
• Right click on "Translate with Bing" which opens a new tab.
• Click on this new tab and simply copy the text from the translation box (This will be English to English of course)

Remember though, normal copyright rules still apply.

Best of luck