Extract Source Code Of A Webpage Using VB?
Jul 18, 2010how can I extract the source code of a web page and to save it into a text file -- I would like to have a VB code to do the same?
View 3 Replieshow can I extract the source code of a web page and to save it into a text file -- I would like to have a VB code to do the same?
View 3 RepliesBasically I am building a webcrawler and in order to do so
I have to extract the page source of a webpage which I can do so like this:
CODE:
The above code works fine on most of the websites I have tried to extract page source from but for some reason it is failing to extract the html contents of few websites like these where the message posted by a user is nowhere to be seen? The webpage in question is this: [URL]
Is there something I have missed or is it due to forum protection etc which is preventing the vb application from extracting the whole page source?
How to go about extracting user comments on likes of forums by using the page source.[code]...
View 6 RepliesI want my form to navaigate into a link then open up the source code of that page it navigated to . Then get a link from the source code then display it on a textbox .Here's an example : i want this link in a source code :
http%3A%2F%2Fanime-omnibus.ning.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D3382149%253AVideo%253A160429%26ck%3D-
This link is located just beside :
config=
That is:
config=http%3A%2F%2Fanime-omnibus.ning.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D3382149%253AVideo%253A160429%26ck%3D-
How can i make my form to navigate into the source code and get the link beside config word . I know it is possible to do it , just don't know the function to do it .
How to get source/HTML code of the web page that is shown in WebBrowser1 when I click a button? I would like it to be written in Notepad or eventually in new form..
View 2 Repliesi wanted to know if there was a couple lines of code you could use to open the source code of a website (like you could in notepad), into a textbox in visual basic.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to read product caracteristics from the source code of my supplier web page and store in my database. The code i created is just to show me the characteristics in a messagebox then i will store them in my DB. But i get an error in the If atrname.Count <> atrvalue.Count Then since values did not match titles count.[code]...
View 3 RepliesOk I was wondering how can I grab the source code from webbrowser1. The problem is that I cant find this line of code in the source code. I cant only find it if I highlight what I want and do a right click and look for the source code. I heard is was like a hidden part of the source code. How canI implement that in my program?
View 4 RepliesI need to extract some info of a HTML source code and put it in a textbox...i treid a lot of things and even the best idea's crasht what i got this far is :
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("value_wood").SetAttribute(TextBox3.Text, "class")
End Sub
[code]....
the number that i want in the textbox is : 8,466
I want to get the links and images from an html code using the htmlDocument class available through webBrowser.So I retrieved and assigned the html code to the webBrowser trying each one of this 3
[Code]...
I am trying to create a program which does something similar to a function in excel but with increased functionality. What I need to know for this is how to get the program to search a webpage's source code for a specific string and unfortunately I have no idea how to even begin going about this.
View 2 Repliesi try to read the source code of a web page but i have problem.When i use View Source from IE or FireFox i see all the code of the page.I try to take the code into a txt file with .NET 2005 Visual Basic because i have to read 900 pages.
the code i use
Dim myPageInfoPageURL As String
Dim myPageInfoPageResult As String
Dim myPageInfoPageHTTPWRQ As HttpWebRequest
[code]....
I need to get some parts of the source code (mainly product characteristics) from the web site and insert in my database:I need to get some parts of the source code in my db, which are the product characteristics and the it contains its value
Example of what i need is :
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
[code].....
I'll be able to get some advice and help with regards to my question. Basically I am trying to achieve the task of downloading source code from a website say forum then using a simple parser technique remove the metadata from the uploaded data and store it into the database.
I know how to download information from a website by using the following code
[Code]...
How do you access a web page's source code without downloading the file? i.e., downloading a .php file generally wouldn't work - I want to access the code that it would return if I was using a browser.
View 6 RepliesI wanted to ask you something which is bugging me for a while. I work an IT dept at a local bank and I got instructions to make an application which should retrieve some financial info from a financial banking stats page.
The webpage can be accessed through[URL] and the info can be seen in the web browser but I cannot extract them because the info is not available in the source code of the page.It seems it's generating the info dynamically using a jsquery.js file.
I was wondering if it's possible to make an app which uses some cache or something (I guess the the page is saved temporary somewhere on the disk for the current session) to retrieve that data in vb.net?
I wanted to ask you something which is bugging me for a while. I work an IT dept at a local bank and I got instructions to make an application which should retrieve some financial info from a financial banking stats page.
The webpage can be accessed through [URL].. and the info can be seen in the web browser but I cannot extract them because the info is not available in the source code of the page.It seems it's generating the info dynamically using a jsquery.js file.
I was wondering if it's possible to make an app which uses some cache or something (I guess the the page is saved temporary somewhere on the disk for the current session) to retrieve that data in vb.net?
all I want is a function like this:
[URL] but then with the option to provide username & password. I have managed to do this with the webbrowser, first logging in then go to webpage and get source code but this takes much longer than just getting the source code...
Is there any way to do this? I found this:
[URL]
I tried with &username=...&password=... in the URL but it didn't work
I've been trying to make a program which access the internet and takes the source code from the webpage. I've copied this code from the internet:
[Code]...
I have the following code to open a webpage:
Dim IE As Object
Dim x As Integer
Dim c As Variant
[code]....
The page that opens is in xml and in that xml there is the "page_count" that I need to pick out so I can tell my macro when to stop looping. I have dimmed it as "c" in the code above. Following is the XML.
<search>
<total_items>360</total_items>
<page_size>100</page_size>
<page_count>4</page_count>
Somehow I need c = "4", which is the "page_count". Does anyone know how I can pick out the "4" from the xml on my page?
Extract Data from Webpage?I have this code so far.[code]...
View 2 RepliesI want to extract text from a web page, I used the web-browser component but I found only to load the webpage, how can I read text from the webpage?
View 2 RepliesI want to extract the user id in the webpage[code]...
View 7 RepliesI wanted to extract today's date from [URL] and the expected output will be: Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
View 3 RepliesI am working on a project just for fun in my spare time and would like to know how to extract certain text from a webpage. For example: One of the tools I wish to have is a translator and I wish to use google translate set on Detect language to English. What I wish to extract is the translated text into the form or a msgbox.
View 2 Replieshow to extract data from this web page url...Its mainly the Ip address and port but i have no idea in where to start. I know to start out with this Dim elements As HtmlElement Collection = Me.botBrowser.Document.All.but i dont know how i would transverse the source code to find the ip address and port.Also like if i just wanted to first one on the page each time the page refreshed how would i do this also
View 7 RepliesI am trying to build a VB.NET 2005 windows app which gets cars info from a ebpage(webapplication) that has a username and password.I was able to programmatically login to this webpage(by automatically populating the input boxes using webbrowser control) And after I logged in, I could view the cars data in browser and I did "View Source" but the cars data (such as car model, brand, color etc..) were not viewable in the page source code
View 17 RepliesI am trying to build a VB.NET windows app which gets cars info from a webpage (web application) that has a username and password. I was able to programmatically login to this webpage(by automatically populating the input boxes) And after I logged in, I could view the cars data in browser and I did "View Source" but the cars data (such as car model, brand, color etc..) were not viewable in the page source code. So how can I read these data with my application?
View 9 RepliesI wanted to extract today's date from
[URL]
and the expected output will be: Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
I am trying to build a VB.NET 2005 windows app which gets cars info from a webpage(webapplication) that has a username and password.
I was able to programmatically login to this webpage(by automatically populating the input boxes using webbrowser control) And after I logged in, I could view the cars data in browser and I did "View Source" but the cars data (such as car model, brand, color etc..) were not viewable in the page source code. So how can I read these data with my application?