SAVEAS

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Saves information to a file. The SAVEAS command can save different information to a file. You can add parts to the original file name by using the + syntax (see Examples). The built-in variable !NOW is helpful in this context.

Contents 1 Syntax 2 Parameters 3 Examples 4 Related forum posts: 5 See Also

Syntax

SAVEAS TYPE=(CPL|MHT|HTM|TXT|EXTRACT|BMP|PNG|JPEG) FOLDER=folder_name FILE=file_name

Note:

• The MHT format is only supported in the iMacros Browser and IE (Microsoft specific format).
• Taking Screenshots: When takinging screenshots with the iMacros Browser or Firefox, the complete web page (including the invisible part below the fold) is saved. When taking a screenshot with Internet Explorer, only the visible part of the web page is saved. Currently only the iMacros Browser and iMacros for IE can take screenshots of non-HTML content like Flash and Silverlight.
• Chrome only supports TYPE=(HTM|TXT|EXTRACT|PNG)

Parameters

• TYPE

  Specifies the type of the save information. The following options are available:

  • CPL

    The complete web page is saved. The files and images are saved separately and stored in a folder.

  • MHT

    The web page plus images are saved in a single file (Web Archive).

  • HTM

    The web page source is saved with no images. If the page has frames, all framed HTML pages are saved automatically.

  • TXT

    Only the web page text is saved; all HTML tags are omitted.

  • EXTRACT

    The value of the variable !EXTRACT is saved in CSV format.

    Note: the value of the !EXTRACT variable is reset after calling "SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT".

  • BMP (supports Flash, Java and Silverlight)

    A screenshot of the web page is saved.

  • PNG

    as above: a screenshot of the web page is saved

  • JPEG

    as above: a screenshot of the web page is saved

• FOLDER

  Specifies the folder in which the file is saved. Use * for the standard download folder specified in the Paths tab of the Options dialog, e.g. C:\Program Files\iMacros\downloads\. Note that blank spaces in the path need to be replaced by "<SP>" like in "c:\my<SP>folder" (instead of "c:\my folder")

  Note: For changing the folder location when when taking a screenshot, use an ONDOWNLOAD command before the SAVEAS.

• FILE

  Specifies the file name under which the file is saved. If no file extension is given then the default file extension is used.

  If you use FILE=*, the default file name "extract.csv" is used.

  Use +something to add something to the original file name before the file extension.

Examples

Save the current webpage in a file called homepage_current.mht

SAVEAS TYPE=MHT FOLDER=* FILE=homepage_current 

Save a screenshot of the current page with the current date in the original filename

SAVEAS TYPE=BMP FOLDER=C:\Screenshots FILE=+{{!NOW:ddmmyyyy}}

Save extracted text to default file ("extract.csv" in iMacros "Downloads" folder).

SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=*

Extract some text (e. g. the title) of a report and use it as file name for saving the html page:

 TAG POS=1 TYPE=H1 ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
 SAVEAS TYPE=CPL FOLDER=d:\reports FILE=report_{{!EXTRACT}}.htm

So if the extracted text is "Sales Report January 2011" the page will be saved as report_Sales Report January 2011.htm. That is very useful if you create a macro that saves many reports at once while running in a loop. This way you can give each saved page a meaningful file name.

Related forum posts:

• How Save only the URL of a visited page
• How to determine iMacros folder locations from VBScript

See Also

ONDOWNLOAD, EXTRACT parameter, !EXTRACT