Dear Swyx Users 

Did you know that Swyx can access data directly from a web page?
In this example, the finance website from Yahoo is checked and the latest exchange rate on New Zealand Dollar-Euro is retrieved.  Then the information is played back to the caller.
Function:
1. Inbound call > 2. Script retrieves exchange rate from www > 3. Script plays result back to caller

How can Swyx do this?  By using the graphical script editor and a VB script statement, Swyx can  access information from the website.

‘ ‘ VB script statement ‘ ‘
Function dollar()

  Dim http_req, pos

  Set http_req = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")

  http_req.open "GET", "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NZDEUR=X&d=0b", False

  http_req.send()

  pos = instr(http_req.responseText,"Last Trade")

  dollar = mid(http_req.responseText, pos+52,6)

end function

The original version of this script can be found on the Swyx Knowledge base article KB2650.

This is just a small example on how to retrieve real-time data from a online source. If you have further question please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Happy swyxing . . . .  .

Regards
Mirjam