display only a specific content in AS3 code using webStage View - actionscript-3

I'd like to display, in my app, only a part of a web page.
On this website, I'd like to display, in my app, only the div id "MovieCart".
What should I write in my as3 code in order to do so ?
For now, I have this line :
webView.loadURL("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40565");
But, of course, it's displaying the fullwebpage.
EDIT
So, I've tried this :
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onComplete);
var res : String = ExternalInterface.call("function(){return document.getElementById('movieCart').outerHTML}");
var urlOfMovie: URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40567");
var loaderMovie:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loaderMovie.load(urlOfMovie);
webView.loadString(res);
But, as it's an AIR app, ExternalInterface.call can't be call. Any idea ?

Here is one easy way you can accomplish this:
//First, load the full page as you're currently doing:
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, webLoadComplete); //listen for when the load is finished
webView.loadURL("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40565");
//runs when the load finishes
function webLoadComplete(e:Event):void {
webView.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, webLoadComplete); //stop listening
//second, invoke the following Javascript on the page which assigns the `MovieCart` element as the html for the whole document body
webView.loadURL("javascript:document.body.innerHTML = document.getElementById("MovieCart").outerHTML");
}
Disclaimer:
Keep in mind that scrapping content from websites is generally frowned upon and you may be infringing on peoples work/copyrights by doing so.

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pcpao.org/general.php?strap=152814186280001650
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I am running this after the webpage has loaded, but it should all be there still since its in the dev-tools?
What am I missing to get the full HTML out of a navigated site. I suspect this has to do with frames but after an hour of googling and reading old messages I see this only tangentially mentioned.
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package id="CefSharp.Common" version="47.0.3" targetFramework="net46"
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I was having the same issue trying to get click on and item located in a frame and not on the main frame. Using the example in your answer, I wrote the following extension method:
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Thanks, some examples from previous versions had me confused how this works. I was looking for something like this.
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var result = Browser.GetBrowser().GetFrame(frameIdent.Last()).GetSourceAsync().Result;
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Copy an Image from Flex Application (Web) and paste it outside the application

I have a requirement that we should be able to copy an image displayed in our application, to Clipboard and paste it outside (Like on Excel).
I was trying the below code snippet (Inside a button Click).
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I am using adobe flash professional to create a small banner to auto load one of my own URL for analytics. Is this possible? I found one solution on another user's topic which was (AS 3):
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Have read many similar but no solutions: I'm trying to do something (that i think is) really simple,
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thankyou
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What I've used before is the Multipart URLLoader Class provided by Eugene Zatepyakin, one the best Flash guru's out there :)
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AS3 , Facebook API - Can't retrieve image from event object after image loads

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This should be very easy. I'm racking my brain here trying to figure out what I missed or what is wrong. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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This line:
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It was a crossdomain error, but for some unknown reason the error did not report until I threw var image = evt.target.content; into a try/catch and read the error message.
Props to this post for the answer:
Load profile image from Facebook with Actionscript 3
the evt.target should be a LoaderInfo object, try the code here:
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