# Grabbing the source code of an HTML page?
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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 2, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-source-code-of-an-html-page/227839 "2007-06-02T23:06:38Z")\
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**Author:**  [@RoboLlama](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RoboLlama)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-source-code-of-an-html-page/227839/1 "2007-06-02T23:06:38Z")
Is it possible using AS2.0 to grab the HTML source code of a webpage and store it as a string? I’ve always wanted to do something like this and a few years ago it was only semi-possible. Is anyone aware of new developments in Flash/Actionscript that would allow this?
The closest I’ve come in my attempts to do this is with this code (thanks to McGiver, about 3 years ago):
```auto
webcode = new LoadVars();
webcode.load("http://www.google.com");
webcode.onLoad = function() {
trace(unescape(this));
};
```
However, while the above code does manage to output some of the source code of the given URL, it is somewhat jarbled.
For my original post years ago, see [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63793](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63793)