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    <p>Do you have control over that <code>token.html</code> source? It would be best if it could return JSON or XML, rather than HTML. It greatly simplifies the parsing process. </p> <p>But you could easily load the page into a <code>NSData</code> via:</p> <pre><code>NSError *error = nil; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://nonlinearmind.no-ip.org:8888/token.html"]; NSData *htmlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url options:0 error:&amp;error]; if (error != nil) { NSLog(@"%s unable to load URL '%@'; error = %@", __FUNCTION__, url.absoluteString, error); } </code></pre> <p>Or into a <code>NSString</code> via:</p> <pre><code>NSError *error = nil; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://nonlinearmind.no-ip.org:8888/token.html"]; NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&amp;error]; if (error != nil) { NSLog(@"%s unable to load URL '%@'; error = %@", __FUNCTION__, url.absoluteString, error); } </code></pre> <p>You can parse it from there.</p> <p>For example, to get all of the text between the <code>&lt;h1&gt;</code> open and close tags from the <code>NSString</code> called <code>htmlString</code>, you could:</p> <pre><code>NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"&lt;h1&gt;(.*?)&lt;/h1&gt;" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&amp;error]; if (error != nil) { NSLog(@"%s regex error: %@", __FUNCTION__, error); } NSMutableArray *matches = [NSMutableArray array]; [regex enumerateMatchesInString:htmlString options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [htmlString length]) usingBlock:^(NSTextCheckingResult *result, NSMatchingFlags flags, BOOL *stop) { // the string including html tags is [htmlString substringWithRange:result.range] NSRange matchRange = [result rangeAtIndex:1]; [matches addObject:[htmlString substringWithRange:matchRange]]; }]; NSString *first = matches[0]; NSString *second = matches[1]; // etc. NSLog(@"first=%@", first); NSLog(@"second=%@", second); </code></pre> <hr> <p>I know you haven't said that you could do JSON, but if you could, the iOS implementation is incredibly easy. So, let's assume you had a URL that returned a JSON result like:</p> <pre><code>{ "username" : "myusername", "session" : "mysessionidentifier", "token" : "somecryptictoken2340923923402309234" } </code></pre> <p>You could then parse that with:</p> <pre><code>NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://nonlinearmind.no-ip.org:8888/token.json"]; NSError *error; NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url options:0 error:&amp;error]; if (error != nil) { NSLog(@"%s data read error %@", __FUNCTION__, error); return; } NSDictionary *results = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&amp;error]; if (error != nil) { NSLog(@"%s JSON parse error %@", __FUNCTION__, error); return; } NSLog(@"username = %@", results[@"username"]); NSLog(@"session = %@", results[@"session"]); NSLog(@"token = %@", results[@"token"]); </code></pre>
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    1. COOops... I noticed that. My output is within <h1> tags - though I could make the output xml. The code you gave me gets me much closer. Thank you. 1 further question - how do I store the htmlStrings as individual variables? Lets say I changed this to XML and had 3 tags - <username>, <session>, and <token>. How do I output that to individual username, session, and token variables to pass along? Sorry for so many questions - objective-C is very foreign to me!
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    2. CO@user1864132 I've updated my answer to extract the values from the HTML and populate an array with the matches, which you can then extract into variables as I demonstrate (I just called my variables `first`, `second`, but you'd obviously use more meaningful names).
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    3. COI just looked into using JSON and feel like I'm not getting anywhere. What I really need is to store my parsed <h1> as a value. How do I store [htmlString substringWithRange:matchRange] as a string variable called "token"?
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