I'm trying to Download a String from a Webpage, but in order to do that, I need to download the whole webpage. I've found it easier to use DownloadString, but I can not figure out how to process each line of the Downloaded String, as it is one whole string.
View 4 RepliesI read the following question to download a web page whose contents is coded in UTF-8. The page is then converted into a byte array, while I'm using a String to read contents from the page.
I need to turn UTF-8 into Latin1/ANSI since that's what RichText and MessageBox seem to use (I'm getting funny characters).
Is there a more direct way to donwload a UTF-8 page and convert it into ANSI/Latin1?
Edit: When callig MessageBox, accented characters are not shown as expected:
Content = CStr(e.Result)
'Théâtre, Métro
MessageBox.Show(Content)
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'm trying to download a WebPage as a String, which works, however, I can not parse each line of Html at a time. I can either, Parse each Character, or parse the whole thing as a single String. Here's my
[Code]...
I am looking to go to a URL/URI download the resulting string as if I had opened a file and then get it out into a String variable.
I have been stuffing about with IO.Stream and Net.httpxxx but haven't managed to get the elements to line up in the right way.
I get "the given path's format is not supported" from opening the page in the standard stream, because it's not in the local file system ... that bit i understand, the bit I don't get is ... how do I achieve the equivelent of:
Public Function GetWebPageAsString(pURL As String) As String
Dim lStream As IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(pURL)
Return lStream.ReadToEnd
End Function
Does any one know how to download webpages that have a nonscript tag. I have used httpwebrequest and weclient but I always get the text in the nonscript tag. The only thing that i have gotton to work is the webbrowser but I have encountered many problems.
View 4 RepliesI have a Web Browser and I have a button where I can get the HTML Source of a Web Page. The code I have so far stores the HTML Source in a string:
[Code]...
I have a windows forms application with the msi installer residing on my web site
Prospective clients can download the installer from a web page after filling out their contact details. This works fine
I would like to be able to auto run the installer after the download is complete
I am working on a task in which I have to download all flash objects swf and flv files running in web page. I have got no clue to find he source of .swf file, as mostly swf files comes from other servers. I want to find out some way to find the source / url of .swf currently running. Kindly suggest me some way.
I have 2 ideas in mind, but currently unsuccessful in implementing them
1. Using WebBrowser class and somehow find url of swf.
2. Using Pcap to fetch all http packets and after decoding, some how try to find url coming.
Probably a simple question but I cant figure it out. I have a webbrowser control, which navigates to a URL where it logs in, then a different URL where theres some information I need. I would like to save this page as an HTML document. I can navigate to the page easily, so is there any way to tell the webbrowser to save the current page as an HTML document?
View 2 RepliesI have been wanting to make a file downloader (enter the website link, it browses files, with the Filter you give it, then has a download link for each file.) I haven't coded VB since 2006 and can't even remember the basic code.
View 4 RepliesI've been trying for a while to use a method I've found on the net to login to a webpage then download zip files off the page.Here is what I am doing:
Code:
strURL = "https://www.someurl.com/"
Client = New WebClient()
[code].....
In a loop, I need to read a list of URLs from a text file, download the web page, and search for a bit of text using a regex.
I used the following code, with DownloadStringAsync() to avoid freezing the UI, but it triggers the error "WebClient does not support concurrent I/O operations.":
Private Sub AlertStringDownloaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs)
If e.Cancelled = False AndAlso e.Error Is Nothing Then
[Code].....
I'm creating an application where I want to save a webpage to a file. The webpage has a Javascript function written into it. See below
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript</title>
[Code]....
There is a reason for this. I will be required to retrieve data from a Javascript API. The API can only display data on the webpage and somehow I have to retrieve it from the webpage.
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 but with .Net Framework 2.0. Haven't tried out 3.0 or 3.5.
My program so far reads a certain webpage's source code and places it in a textbox. This much has already been accomplished.
Now I need to pick certain strings out of the rather large amount of text data and have the lines stored in variables, but the trick of it is, the exact string is unknown. The exact function should be, that the code finds certain tags from the source code, say <td> and </td> and takes the string data in between those tags, what ever it may be.
I want to download the same information which is obtained when we right click view page source in browser. I want to do this either in vb.net or perl
I need it for google image search result webpage.When that page is saved then html code is not same as view page source info.tags for images are absent. [code]...
I have an email creator that needs to extract the emails created from the html page, display the accounts in a richtextbox1 & then save the accounts as a .txt file on my system. How would I go about doing this? Doe anyone have a great code sample??
View 1 RepliesI guess that I'm not the first who ask this, but what is the easiest way to use threads in VB.NET? I mean, I need to download some string from a remote server and then to show that string in the GUI, so I have to use some callback function to call it in the main thread. I found different approaches for this, but all seems very difficult compared to Python where (with GTK) I used something like: gobject.idle_add(callback_function, parameters) and "callback_function" was executed in the main thread. How I do that in VB.NET?
View 1 RepliesI'm using visual basic 2010 express..I'm building my own web browser and want to add a download manager.I have been able to build one that will download a file if I type the file location into a text box.What I'm trying to figure out is how to have the download manager open when I click on a download link on a web page.How to make the download manager know it is a link to a downloadable file as opposed to something like a link to another webpage?
View 3 RepliesI am trying to automate file downloads. Sometimes I get to a webpage that has a file link to download a file, but it is not a direct link. Instead it is a PHP request on the server side, for the file.
Is it possible to automate this using the webbrowser control, or is there another way I can do this using VB .NET?
How can I get a string from a web page and display it on my program in a label?[url\...
View 4 RepliesI am trying to get several strings from a web page and add them to a listbox each string I need to grab falls in between these two strings
<a rel='lightbox' href='
And
'>Image Only</a></td>
there will be several of these strings on the same page?
How would i put the contents of a webpage into a string?
it would be the same thing as hitting ctrl+A and copying and pasting it.
is there a way to do this programmatically without 'sendkeys' ?
i do not want to look at the html source at all, i just want to copy the text on the site
I wanna do something like this
Dim strExampledotcom as String
strExampledotcom = (whatever to get a webpage)
(do stuff)
(etc...)
I want to test the first word in the page. [URL]
It says "Sorry!" if the screen name is taken. It says "Congratulations!" if it's not.
I'd like to make the request url like this: [URL]
inb4 remove html: I already figured I need to do this.
I need to check if a webpage exists if it does whether a certain string exists anywhere on the page. Preferably I'd like to do this without a webbrowser control, so that images don't have to be downloaded and it doesn't have to be rendered.
View 1 RepliesI done this:
sTxt = File.ReadAllText("C:someWebPage.html")
I have forums and it has a name on it in the smae place evry time no matter which userpage im on.
HTML
<dl class="stats">
<dt>Gamertag</dt>
<dd>Yoshi910</dd>
</dl>
the Name is always under Gamertag. Is there a way for me to Grab that name in .net
I have some web-radio site and i want my program to record the song name from the webpage, i dont really know how,
i made RichTextBox and i made a WebClient....
I dont know how to make it look for the string that shows the name song.
lets say webpage has 2 strings named sampleObj="sample1" and sampleObj="sample2" Even though sampleObj remains the same the text inside, however, changes.How would you loop inside page and get sampleObj text each time? I tried Regular Expressions and GetElementsByTagName but no luck.
View 1 RepliesI've been using this simple code to download a URL to a file :-
Code:
Shared Function DownloadFile(ByVal URL As String, ByVal LocalDest As String) As Boolean
Try
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim u As New Uri(URL)
[code]....
Then simply load the file in to a string and find the data that I need.
1. Is there a more efficient way of downloading a web page directly into a string without having to save the file physically to my hard drive?
2. Can I specify a timeout somewhere?