
It takes a wait parameter indicating the number of seconds after which the library should stop connecting to the internet and give up. The most basic command, is_url() checks whether a given string is a grammatically correct URL (e.g. The library has a number of commands to find out what type of content (e.g. Web content is accessed with a URL, the address you use to connect to a place on the internet. In that case you need to inform the library with the set_proxy() command: web. If you are behind a proxy server the library may not be able to connect to the internet. Outside of NodeBox you can also just do import web. You can also put it in ~/Library/Application Support/NodeBox/.

Put the web library folder in the same folder as your script so NodeBox can find the library. Creating GIF images from math equations.Some helper commands to draw Wikipedia content in NodeBox.Using Yahoo! to suggest spelling corrections.Improving Yahoo! results with a contextual search.Querying Yahoo! for links, images and news.The library bundles Leonard Richardson's Beautiful Soup to parse HTM, Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser for newsfeeds, a connection to John Forkosh's mathTeX server (thanks Cedric Foellmi), Leif K-Brooks entity replace algorithm, simplejson, and patches for Debian from the people at Indywiki. This means you can use the library in an animation that keeps on running while new content is downloaded in the background. Many of the services also work asynchronously.
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The NodeBox Web library works with a caching mechanism that stores things you download from the web, so they can be retrieved faster the next time.

You can use the library to query Yahoo! for links, images, news and spelling suggestions, to read RSS and Atom newsfeeds, to retrieve articles from Wikipedia, to collect quality images from morgueFile or Flickr, to get color themes from kuler or Colr, to browse through HTML documents, to clean up HTML, to validate URL's, to create GIF images from math equations using mimeTeX, to get ironic word definitions from Urban Dictionary. The NodeBox Web library offers a collection of services to retrieve content from the internet.
