I have used Web Browser in VB to get the HTML source code of a web page and put it in a richtextbox. I need to take that HTML and extract the data needed from it. I have searched and cant find an example that I can understand being new to VB.Net I am trying eventually import the data into excel.
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I'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 RepliesI am using a for next loop to scrape through some html code. I am testing elements for a certain string, and when it hits that, I need to get the string that resides 2 elements earlier.When going through a for...next loop (I know you can loop completely backwards with step -1), is there a way to 'go back' 2 loops?
Ex)for each'lets say we are 5 loops in and our if returns true'can i go back to loop 3, perform an action, then return to loop 5 and continue the real loops?
I'm trying to scrape the right url from html file using webbrowser I want to scrape this Href and navigate to it. But the problem is every other comment with reply is almost the same. So if I use to scrape hrefs and check the name it will give me the reply buttons of all the comments + the new comment button. Is there a way to grab this link only this one by it's Class name or something?
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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim StrInput As String = Display.Text
Dim firstInteger, secondInteger As Integer
firstInteger = StrInput.IndexOf("ad_list_link", 0)
secondInteger = StrInput.IndexOf("ad_list_link", firstInteger)
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I need to string z from a webpage source file but having trouble cutting the code around it away.
I want to catch the text from an html page.. you know that when you open any html page in the browser, you will see a text but with formatting.. because it's an html code having a lot of tags...
how to get the text from an html page and ignore all formatting and html code?
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I am using this code to parse an html file for image locations:
Dim htmlDoc As String = IO.File.ReadAllText(path, System.Text.Encoding.Default)
Dim Regex As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("img.*srcs*=s*(?:""(?<1>[^""]*)""|(?<1>S+))")
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How would I change the regex string so that it leaves off everthing from the img to the src=, so that I'm just left with what's in between the quotes? Note that sometimes there is stuff between "img" and "src=" and sometimes there is not.
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>
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Im trying to scrape some text on a webpage, I asked in the regex section and they recommended to use HtmlAgilityPack with Xpath to scrape the info I want.
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Im am trying to parse a web page for a particular text string, But VB2010 keeps saying there is an error at this part of my code request.GetResponse The guide i was following doesn't explain the error. could some one take a look ?
Imports System.IO
Imports System
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
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I have tried request.beginGetresponse and request.endGetresponse.
I just got VB and I am having a hard time learning this stuff. but I am not giving up.I am looking to make a web text scraper, so I can scrape words off of webpages and put them into a text file.I couldnt find a whole lot of help in the search function. bare with me, I am new here and new to programing also.
View 5 RepliesI want to read a HTTP Post that comes from a server to a website. I am trying to write a script that basically parse the HTTP post that comes in as text format and read the variables in the text file then add them to a database.
I know how to do the second part but I am unsure about how to read the text file variables that comes from the HTTP Post
The HTTP post that get sent looks as below
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No Insurance
I am trying to write a code for this and have the code below
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How do I get the variables in this text file, mainly start after ":" and the last 3
I looked around the forum can't find something really simple.I want to scrape everything between the
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
to
<div class="ad_editorial-sponsorship"></div>
copy it and use it right after it's website and I navigate using webbrowser1.
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 RepliesOk so basically heres what i need to do: Extract text from the webpage that meets a certain criteria. There will be a ton of these on 1 page and i would like to add them to a rich textbox on sperate lines.
I know that it needs to be in a loop and its needs to Parse the wepage(Dim web1 As String = Me.WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerText)
The criteria is: Starts with 1 to 4(random) integers, Followed by "my" then 13(random) numbers and letters. Or if it starts with "167my" + 6(random) number and letters.
Edit: Also im going to try to make it loop through a list of webpages to do this.
I 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 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 implement a webservice but I am receiving this error :Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'.The request failed with the error message:Quote:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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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?
I certain html page contains links that are displayed with each onclick event. I am unable to parse the html for the url that will follow these onlick links. If this is the source on the page, how do I capture the content that each onclick link displays. In other words for example:
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Now this is the onclick link that will display some content which I need to capture. Basically I want to be able to activate the onclick event from a program to display and capture the url links from that specific page.
I am iterating through the lines of a RTB that has captured the HTML of a website. I want to check each line for a URL (just the first one is fine) ---- I can create a substring when it finds an http:// but I cannot figure out how to get rid of everything after .com or .org, etc.I have found a regex that supposedly does it but am not sure how to implement it.... here is what I have so far: For Each currentLine As String In rtb1
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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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I'm using the following code to retrieve a URL and then parse the HTML from the page:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStart.Click
Dim Temp As String, searchstr As String
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I think my problem is that I don't exactly understand how I am supposed to start and end the parsing. I know that in my above code, the "meta" tag is the start and the chr(34), double quotes, is the ending.
When I modify my code, I have price line, which in th html ends with another character, the ">" sign. In the first code, the "content" tag doesn't end with another character, it just continues the line, which is easy and it works.
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?