In regards to webView.load_url(), is there a way to download the webpage content and display the downloaded page?
I have a webview in my script that shows a wiki page but I want it to work offline. So I guess it would download the webpage when the script first runs but after that it should use the downloaded page if it is still up to date.
You can download the HTML file and save it with urllib2:
import urllib2
page = urllib2.urlopen("example.com")
with open("out.html", "w") as outfile:
outfile.write(page.read())
You can load the contents of this file into a WebView now. I don't know if load_url supports local files, but you can always use load_html. This will load the file we saved in the last example into a ui.WebView
import ui
with open("out.html", "r") as outfile:
html = outfile.read()
wv = ui.WebView()
wv.load_html(html)
wv.present()
If you don't need to access the HTML between two separate runnings of the script, you don't have to save the file and then read it again, you can just store it locally.
See OfflineWebView.py at https://github.com/cclauss/Pythonista_ui/tree/master
@ccc you named it with a .pu extension, little typo there :) Not a big deal, but GitHub doesn't syntax-highlight it properly like that.
load_url does support local files, if you provide the os.abspath. For pages with multiple resources (images, scripts, etc) relative paths then work in the html file.
Thanks guys, just what I was looking for.