[Tutor] Font capture from webpages

[Alan Gauld]

"Ashish Sharma" <mail2ashish.sharma at gmail.com> wrote 

> I want to find the font style,Font size written in webpage without
> looking into source code.

Do you mean you need to find the actual font used in the 
browser regardless of the settings in the HTML/CSS source?

On Windows you can probably do that by querying 
the OLE/DDE interface but it will be messy. On browsers 
like Lynx or Links it will be determined by the users resource 
file settings. 

It seems like a very strange thing to want to do.
HTML and CSS allow a lot of scope for the browser to 
interpret things like fonmts locally. For example if a 
page specifies Helvetica it could wind up being displayed 
on one browser as Helvetica and on another (on the same 
computer!) as Arial or even Courier...

> Can Any one tell if there is API avalable for this in python .

Not in Python as such. You have a choice of ways of 
parsing the HTML but querying the browser will need to 
go via things like COM or DDE I suspect. (And I have 
no idea what you'd do on Linux or MacOS!)

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