# Is it possible for Flash to "read" an HTML page?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-for-flash-to-read-an-html-page/199392>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-for-flash-to-read-an-html-page/199392 "2006-09-01T22:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sciurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sciurus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sciurus)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-for-flash-to-read-an-html-page/199392/1 "2006-09-01T22:54:58Z")

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Like, can Flash take an HTML page and “read” it’s contents? If not, is there any way for this to happen using, say, Java or something like that?