Im having a hard time finding tutorials for the HtmlAgilityPack, all of them are for c#, so im having to use c# code and convert it to vb.Here is the my code, im still getting errors with the 3rd line:[code].......
View 4 RepliesHere is a snip of my code:
Dim content As String = ""
Dim web As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb
Dim doc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument()
doc.Load(WebBrowser1.DocumentStream)
Dim hnc As HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class='address']/preceding-sibling::h3[@class='listingTitleLine']")
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I have spent way too much time trying to sort this little issue out. I have narrowed down the issue to the exact procedure that throws the error. Yes, I have used Google..
Try
Dim tempSource as String = Nothing
Console.WriteLine("Loading document...")
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I am loading a text file, that contains about 1100 lines, and each line is going to be processed with HTML Agility Pack. From what I can tell, when it runs "doc.loadhtml(richtextbox1)", it throws the error. I also have tried to load the file into a string, and load the string with "doc.loadhtml(thestring)". It doesn't make a difference, still errors.
Here are is a sample of how each line looks:
<Site Index="" Name="" Group="" PR="" />
<Site Index="" Name="" Group="" PR="" />
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I am using HTML Agility Pack, however the above is what is on every line, about 1100 lines! For testing, I have a smaller text file made of about 50 lines before I load up the 1100 line file ;) There aren't any HTML, HEAD, or BODY tags! They aren't needed for my parsing. I am using HTML Agility Pack because it is easy to parse elements with. I can grab each value easily from each line.
I am not sure if maybe the error is because it technically isn't HTML? Meaning since the loaded code doesn't have an HTML or BODY tag, that it errors? I wanted to get this question posted, and while I am waiting on some answers, I am going to parse the document another way. Just curious as to what the deal is and why HTML Agility Pack isn't working. More of a proof of concept then anything, for my own learning and knowledge.
Here is the error I get (btw the on the doc.load() line, is where it throws the exception):
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Last Note: The routine is on a background thread. I have used multi-threading before, and have delegates created for deeper in the code.
I just installed the Visual Basic 2010 Express and I have no idea how to start! The IDE is so new to me and I need the place or link where I can download or watch video tutorials about the IDE and its features. I also want to learn the VB 2010 Express language from the very basics of it.
View 2 RepliesI'm using HTMLAgilityPack in a parser that I have up on a server, but I'm having issues with one of the websites that I'm parsing: Every day around 6am they tend to shut down their servers for maintenance, which throws off the Load() method for HTMLWeb, and makes my app crash. Do any of you guys have a more secure way of loading a website into HTMLAgilityPack, or maybe some way to do error checking in C# to prevent my app from crashing? (my c# is a little rusty). Here is my code right now:
HtmlWeb webGet = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument document = webGet.Load(dealsiteLink); //The Load() method here stalls the program because it takes 1 or 2 minutes before it realizes the website is down
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 have this code to extract all form input element in html document. currently, i cant get select, textarea and other elements except input element.
Dim htmldoc As HtmlDocument = New HtmlDocument()
htmldoc.LoadHtml(txtHtml.Text)
Dim root As HtmlNode = htmldoc.DocumentNode
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how to get all elements in all forms in the html document?
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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I have this html. I'm trying to get its InnerText without any tags in it,[code]What am trying to do is get the text as the user would see it from the class thisclass.I want to strip any script tag, and all tags, and just get plain text.
View 1 Repliesam processing html forms with htmlagilitypack, but encounter some problems. take for example
<form action="" method="post">
<input name="email" type="text" />
<input name="fruit" type="hidden" value="5" />
<img src="/image.php">
</form>
I'm using the HTMLAgilityPack to parse HTML pages. However at some point I try to parse wrong data (in this specific case an image), which ofc fails for obvious reasons. Code:
How to check whether the content is 'parse-able' before trying to parse it to prevent the error? For now it is an image which makes an error popup however I think it might be just anything which isn't (x)html.
im trying to retrieve this text on a webpage without the line break:
<span class="listingTitle">888-I-AM-JUNK. Canada's most trusted BIG LOAD junk removal<br />specialist!</span></a>
How can I do it?
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how do i select all input element using htmlagilitypack, extracting the input element name and type
View 2 RepliesI 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?
i have this code
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but am getting an error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. the document contains at least one anchor-tag? how do i check if an attribute exits? i tried this if link.HasAttributes("title") then and get another error Public ReadOnly Property HasAttributes() As Boolean' has no parameters and its return type cannot be indexed.
Im using HtmlAgilityPack/HAP so that I can use Xpath with HTML documents.selecting the preceding-sibling of div class="address" in this url[url].....The sibling that I want is h3 class="listingTitleLine" Here is a screenshot:
View 1 RepliesI am trying to grab a html table from a remote page and display the contents of this table in a htmltable on my site. I am using htmlagility pack. So far here is my code:
Imports HtmlAgilityPack
Partial Class ContentGrabExperiment
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
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I'm obtaining data from a StreamReader.My StreamReader is called "reader" and I'm reading the stream with "responseOutput" like this "responseOutput = reader.ReadToEnd()" And in that bunch of text that I receive I want to FIND and EXTRACT a piece of text and then STORE that extraction in a variable of String type.Here is part of the code I'm referring to:
Dim response = request.GetResponse
Dim responseOutput As String
Dim reader As StreamReader
reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
responseOutput = reader.ReadToEnd()
And here is the text or data that I'm receiving (what I'm about to show you is the result of a "MessageBox.Show(responseOutput)":
<TweetPhotoResponse xmlns="http://tweetphotoapi.com" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Large>http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54092/x2_7e143b</Large><MediaId>7e143b</MediaId><MediaUrl>http://tweetphoto.com/8262715</MediaUrl><Medium>http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54102/x2_7e143b</Medium><Original>http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c61132/x2_7e143b</Original><PhotoId>8262715</PhotoId><SessionKeyResponse/><Status>OK</Status><Thumbnail>http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54112/x2_7e143b</Thumbnail><UserId>2268670</UserId></TweetPhotoResponse>
And all I want to do, is to extract a specific part of that text, which is the "PhotoId" value (I highlighted it in red), in this case the value is "8262715", and then store it in a variable (I know how to do that I just need the value).The text or data I'm receiving changes only the PhotoId everytime it's requested.
I loaded a text file to a text box, and I want the program to find a certain line containing only the strings I specify. But the text file will likely contain many of them, so I want it to pause scanning at the first line I'm looking for until I tell it to continue, then the second line, and so on. So the questions are:
1. What's the method for finding the exact line I want in a text file?
2. How do you start, pause, and resume scanning a text file line by line?
I have 2 images. One image is a large image and the second one is a small one. The small image has a copy of itself within the large image. I am wanting to find the coordinates of where the second image is located within the large image, a 'find feature' in other words. e.g, I might have an image with the word "Test" in it. And I want to find the coordinates of the letter 'e'...
View 8 RepliesWhat are the best ways you guys recommend to search the MSDN Code Library. I know there have been several instances in searching for ways to do something, doing a long workaround, and finding out later that there was a built in class that handled the problem that I was working on much simpler.
So what are some of the ways you guys use to find tools, classes, etc. when coding. Or are you just that awesome already.This is kindve just a general tips and tricks question. Sorry if Im in the wrong forum mods.
I am downloading a JPEG image from a site and then I need to find the darkest pixel of that image. It also needs to be very fast since speed DOES count here, majorly. (probably has to use an API)
View 4 Repliesin the old days i could so something like
GWBasic
10 A$="ReallyLongStringInSmallSpace": B$="tiny"
20 PRINT USING" ASDFASDFASDF ASDFASDF"; A$; B$
Output:
"Re ASDFASDFASDF tiny ASDFASDF"
it would automatically truncate large strings to fit in a small assigned space, and it would use empty spaces for strings too short. it made it VERY easy to print fixed front text tables in aligned columns by automatically truncating long lines and expanding using spaces (chr 32) where needed.i've already looked at .Format but it seems just for dates, times, currencies, and various byte/hex formats.
I have a form, that when opened, displays the image from the webcam onto it.
It's a test, to ensure the webcam is working. A prompt appears that asks if the webcam is working. However, some testers are lying and I need to find a method to make sure they can't lie.
My team wants to use a large bar code that the tester has to hold in front of the camera.
So I need to figure out how to either read the bar code, or just read the text in the bar code, which reads, "* C A M *."
It looks like the image below, but much larger.
Does anyone know where I should begin? I was thinking about using GetPixel, but I'm not sure I could or if that would be reliable enough.
I am loading a webpage within WebBrowser1 and trying to check the page for text. I just want it to find whether or not the text on the page says "No jobs are available at this time." and if those words are not found then I am going to have the program alert me. When I run this code..
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I need to have the webbrowser on the selected tab dimmed, so like Dim foundbrowser = TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Find("WebBrowser", False)i know thats totally wrong but its just to show you what i kind of need, how do i do this? The only control on the selected tab is a webbrowser if that helps?
View 2 RepliesI am working on a MSDN project from 2007 it calls for a Common Dialog Control but I can not find it. Has this been deprecated and/or is there something to replace it? If not how can I access this in VS 2010 for a VB project?
View 16 RepliesI couldn't get the SO text editor to mark parts of the post correctly so if you can trick SO into properly formatting the exception text and the code
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how to find the row position/index in a data table, using a value from another table. For example, I use the row position from Linkingtable1 to get my value for CustomerID, but i want to use the CustomerID to search the CustomerTable for its row position, in order to show the Customers Name in a text box, As currently when loading the textbox shows the customerID. I understand the code to get the names from the rows in the datatable, its just finding the row position of the customerID.
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