Bill Gates demonstrates the first use of Text Expansion Ever Recorded

I was watching an old Microsoft video where Bill Gates was demonstrating Visual Basic.   To my surprise he mentioned using Text Expansion (HotStrings)

I always like to say that HotStrings are the “Hidden Gems” of AutoHotkey.   If you’re not using them, you are missing out!

Clean Phone numbers with RegEx in AutoHotkey

In this video I show how to use a function calling a  RegEx (a Regular Expression ) to clean phone numbers.

Clean Phone numbers with RegEx

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06: Chrome and AutoHotkey: Getting lists from page

Automating and ChromeHere we continue with GeekDude working with Chrome and AutoHotkey extracting data from a webpage.  This session we focus on getting lists and leverage JSON, Chrome.Jxon_Dump, JSON.stringify, Chrome.Jxon_Load and jQuery.

The great news is that GeekDude explained how we can see the Reddit site the way it was the below video!

By logging into https://old.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey/, the HTML will be the same as in the video!

Chrome and AutoHotkey: Getting lists from page

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Notes: Chrome and AutoHotkey: Getting lists from page

00:05     Sometimes you want multiple items from a page.  Maybe all post titles, or all links form comments.

00:20     Looking in HTML we see there’s a lot going on.  We need to look at the structure BEFORE we get working on it.

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