Parse Tables In HTML Docs And Extract TRs And TDs. With HTML Agility Pack?
Apr 18, 2012I've given a job to convert old data in table format to new format.Old dummy data is as follows:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Some text 1.</td>
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I've given a job to convert old data in table format to new format.Old dummy data is as follows:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Some text 1.</td>
[code].....
Need a bit of help with HTML Agility Pack!Basically I want to grab plain-text withing the body node of the HTML. So far I have tried this in vb.net and it fails to return the innertext meaning no change is seen, well atleast from what I can see.
Dim htmldoc As HtmlDocument = New HtmlDocument
htmldoc.LoadHtml(html)
Dim paragraph As HtmlNodeCollection = htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//body")
[code]....
I have tried this:
Return htmldoc.DocumentNode.InnerText
But still no luck!
Dim codice As String
Dim doc As New HtmlDocument
Dim coll As HtmlNodeCollection
Dim node As HtmlNode
Dim nuovo As HtmlNode
[code]...
I have a html string like this:[code]I wish to strip all html tags so that the resulting string becomes:From another post here at SO I've come up with this function (which uses the Html Agility Pack):[code]
View 4 RepliesThere's plenty of examples out there for other languages. Are there any examples for vb.net?
View 1 Repliesi am trying to get the value from this code:
<DIV id=lcm_simlive_countdown>00 Days, 06 Hours, 40 Minutes, 35 Seconds</DIV>
I have tried the following to do so:
Dim theVidURL As String = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//DIV[@id='lcm_simlive_countdown']").Attributes("value").Value
But it tells me Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I am looking to learn as much about the free source html aglity pack but 99% of what I am running into is code mostly in c sharp. Is VB.NET not the preferred language for html agility pack?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to use HAP to scrape the data from this web page.I would like to get the stats into a structure of some sorts, preferably a Datatable. I've managed to read the webpage into an HtmlDocument object, but I can't figure out how to parse the data from the rows & columns. This is what I have so far:[code]
View 1 RepliesI'm using HtmlAgilityPack and I want to get the inner text between two specific tags, for example:
<a name="a"></a>Sample Text<br>
I want to get the innertext between and tags: Sample Text
I am creating an HTML document using HTML agility pack. I load a template file then append content to it. All of this works, but when I view the output file it has removed the closing tag from my <br/> tags to look like this <br>. What is causing this?
Dim doc As New HtmlDocument()
doc.Load(Server.MapPath("Template.htm"))
Dim title As HtmlNode = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//title")
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I ended up just reading in my template file as a standard string then loading the html like this
Dim TemplateHTML As String = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("Template.htm"))
TemplateHTML = TemplateHTML.Insert(TemplateHTML.IndexOf("<div id=""topContent"">") + "<div id=""topContent"">".Length, _
html.ToString)
doc.LoadHtml(TemplateHTML)
i am trying to find the param for a shockwave video within the web page source. The source looks like this:
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There seems to be no documentation on the codeplex page and for some reason intellisense doesn't show me available methods or anything at all for htmlagilitypack (for example when I type MyHtmlDocument.DocumentNode. - there is no intellisense to tell me what I can do next)
I need to know how to remove ALL < a > tags and their content from the body of the HTML document I cannot just use Node.InnerText on the Body because that still returns content from A tags.[code]...
I have to pull out particular fields from cells in an HTML table. Using Firebug I was able to get the exact XPath to the cells I need (unfortunately, the cells don't have an id tag). I thought I could use DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode and pass in that path, but it doesn't seem to be working right. What am I doing wrong? Or is there a better approach to this than how I am doing it? Unfortunately, I have no experience with XPath so this is turning out harder than I expected it to be. Here's what I have so far (I know the HTML is particuarly messy, but that's not in my control to change):[code]
View 1 RepliesI explain what I would do immediately:I have to extract data from a table using html htmlAgility Pack This 'my code that when executed gives me' a reference error.I can not figure out what is wrong, I am more 'I can not do this
a Private Sub Button5_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
Dim web As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb()
Dim doc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument()
doc = web.Load("http://www.mia_pagina")
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I am trying to remove the tables within an HTML file, specifically, for the following document, I'd like to remove anything within the tags <TABLE....> and </TABLE>. The document contains multiple tables with texts in between.
The expression that I came up with, <TABLE.*>s*[s|S]*</TABLE>s*, however would remove the text in between the tables. In fact it would remove everything between the first <TABLE> and the last </TABLE> tags. I would like to keep the texts in between and only remove the tables.
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The info i need extracted is formatted:
<TD><A HREF="http://xxxxx.com/xxxxxx/index.html"><IMG SRC="../xxxxx/thumbnails/xxxxx.jpg"> </A></TD>
<TD>=== <B><A HREF="http://xxxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx/index.html">LINE 0</A></B> ===<BR>
<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#400080">
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how do i extract the info between TD=== and /a and Line 1,2, and 3 and store it into a database from a live website?
I'm looking for an efficient means of extracting an html "fragment" from an html document. My first implementation of this used the Html Agility Pack. This appeared to be a reasonable way to attack this problem, until I started running the extraction on large html documents - performance was very poor for something so trivial (I'm guessing due to the amount of time it was taking to parse the entire document).[code]...
View 3 RepliesThis may sound really stupid but I have to ask cause I'm not finding this answer anywhere.I have an application where the user will need to sign up for a new user account on the website [URL]..However when I am using Firefox's plug-in Firebug to view html I am getting something totally different than when I just right click on the site and view the page source.
What I am trying to do is to get the captcha from the website and display it in a picturebox on the application so the user can view the captcha, solve the captcha and then the app post is back to the service for a response.
Here is the source that I am getting using Firefox's Firebug to inspect the element:
<td>
<input type="hidden" value="Oo3Jo1I8bgzK68agMqo3s79ZZib2OkbK" name="iden">
<img class="capimage" src="/captcha/Oo3Jo1I8bgzK68agMqo3s79ZZib2OkbK.png" alt="i wonder if these things even work">
</td>
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Why would the two be showing me two different versions of the HTML?
And how would you be able to grab that source to view in a picturebox using webclient?
Usage: Users create pretty HTML news letters in another app. They post the newsletter to the web, but they also want to set the contents of the HTML news letter file as the body of an email and send it using Application In Question. The users understand to use absolute link and image references when sending an E Newsletter. Environment:
AIQ is a VB.Net app deployed via ClickOnce. It is an intranet app; one can be sure MS Office 2003 and the interop 11 dlls are on the target machines.
Restrictions: MAPI is out. It mangles the HTML. Since it is a ClickOnce deployment, we can't register dlls (I think, correct me if I am wrong). Therefore CDO and COM is out (again, I may be wrong.... I would be happy to be proven so).
Does mshtml work with HttpWebRequest? If so, how do I work with it? I thought of downloading the source code of the page I'm requesting into a richtextbox and do my stuff from there, but it sounds kinda impractical to me since I have to use regex to get the innertext of stuff (or not?).
View 3 RepliesI would like extract the data elements from tables within HTML pages.The output should produce an XML file.What is the best way to do that? I am using VB.NET 3.5.
View 7 RepliesI want to parse a LOCAL html file and I don't know how. For example i have a file "c:MyFile.html" which contains:
<html>
<a> My String </a>
</html>
I have been working on my program for a little bit and one of the features I want to add is have it extract the URL's from a website. I would need it to just go through reading the "description" for each URL and then if it maches the one I am looking for it will add the URL to an array list. I know I need to use regex, but I just can't seem to get it to work.
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to parse the HTML from this link and put the stats into a DataGridView or some structure that can be queried (DataTable or database).I tried using HTML Agility Pack previously but couldn't figure out how to make it work. Here is a small sample of the data I want to extract:[code]Keep in mind that there is HTML code before & after the stats section that creates the page elements, etc.I am just looking to get the data from the stats section that is structured as shown above.
View 8 RepliesWas wondering if someone could give me some direction on this. I've spent a decent amount of time on it and don't seem to be getting anywhere: I have a hidden field that I'm trying to parse out of an HTML document in VB.Net. I'm using a System.Windows.Controls.WebBrowser control in a WPF application and handling the LoadCompleted event. Inside the LoadCompleted event handler I do something like this:
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I am trying to take a string that I have marked up through vb.net code and cross-check it with the text file it came from originally. This is for proofreading the html output.To do this, I need to parse an HTML snippet that does not come from a URL.The examples of HTMLAgilityPack I have seen get their input from a URL. Is there a way to parse a string of marked-up text that does not include a header or similar parts of a well-formed webpage?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to extract inforamtion from a website, I was able to get to the point of extract HTML to TXT. not I want to parse from this line TOTAL 3723
View 1 RepliesIn VB.NET 2005, what is the best way to retrieve and parse HTML data from a URL, a bit like a search engine crawler?I am building an app, where I need to parse a website, and collate data from it (the website uses some tags that I could pull out to get the appropriate bits of data). I want to be able to do this in a thread, and just update a DB with the data, and give the client app a status update of the progress.
View 6 RepliesOkay well, on
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and I cannot seem to figure out how to get it to just return that line and not the whole source. Heres my code so far
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I am developing a small window based program where I want to parse HTML tags from richtextbox. How can I do this?
Details: In my program, richtextbox holds HTML source code. and if it contains <img src="images/image.gif" border="0" alt="alt Text" />
then i want to get string "images/image.gif" . so how can I do this?