BFont f;

String headline = "";

void setup() {
  size(640,100);
  getHeadline();
  f = loadFont("Meta-Bold.vlw.gz");
}

void loop() {
  background(0);
  fill(255);
  textFont(f,48);
  text(headline,10,58);
  textFont(f,24);
  int current = 60 - second();
  text("this applet will load cnn's main headline in " + current + " seconds",10,85);
  if (second() == 0) {
    getHeadline();
  }
}

void getHeadline() {
  //Get all the HTML source code into an array of strings (each line is one element in the array)
  //String url = "http://www.cnn.com";
  String url = "loadstrings.php?url=http://www.cnn.com";
  String[] lines = loadStrings(url);
  //convert array into one long string
  String stuff = makeOneLongString(lines);
  stuff = deleteUpUntil(stuff,"<div class=\"cnnMainT1Hd\"><h2>");
  stuff = deleteUpUntil(stuff,">");
  int index = stuff.indexOf("<");
  headline = stuff.substring(0,index);
}

//take a string and delete everything up to and including a search phrase
String deleteUpUntil(String stuff, String search) {
  int index = stuff.indexOf(search);
  return stuff.substring(index + search.length(),stuff.length());
}


String makeOneLongString(String[] input) {
  //start with an empty string and concatenate all lines together
  String s = "";
  for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
    s = s + input[i];
  }
  return s;
}