WebClient.DownloadString Not Getting Whole HTML String
Nov 11, 2010
I'm working on a project that scrapes data from government websites. I've noticed that whenever I use WebClient it doesn't always get the whole HTML code. Even when I get the robots.txt file it doesn't return everything. For example, http://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt has 80 lines but I'm only getting 13 lines.
If an HTML block uses "display: none" in the style I can't get anything between the hidden HTML blocks.Here is the sample code I'm using:[code]...
Dim WebReqeust As WebClient = New WebClient Dim URL as string = "http://www.professionalorganizervannuys.com" Dim WebPage As String = WebReqeust.DownloadString(URL)
But when I use WebClient.DownloadString to read the source code to a textbox, I only get this:
<div id="webResults"> </div>
There's nothing. All of the webresults have been removed.How come I can view the code in my internet browser but not on my application?? I even used an InStr method to confirm that the results weren't contained in the generated code.
I am using WebClient.DownloadString method in vb.netto convert asp.net page to string after that I send this string by email. by I got this error from the server The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. Unfortunately, no more details about the error. what is the possible problem ? edit: error in the following line of code :
I am using WebClient.DownloadString method in vb.netto convert asp.net page to string after that I send this string by email. by I got this error from the server
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Unfortunately, no more details about the error. what is the possible problem ?
error in the following line of code :
Dim str As String = client.DownloadString(Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + "/GFOPortalA/isd/ViewForm.aspx?ISD_FRM_NO=" + Session("ISD_ReqId"))
I've been testing using WebClient.DownloadString and sometimes I encounter an error: "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden". It is based upon which url I use. For instance, this works:
Dim wc As New Net.WebClientDim strResult As String = String.Empty Try strResult = wc.DownloadString("http:/ Obama pages always fails.
How can I integrate a ProgressBar in this code? It takes normally some seconds (9-10), but my program looks like a "crash", for this reason i want use a ProgressBar
Well i want to add a listview item to the paramater of a Webclient DownloadString here is what i want
vb Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim wClient As New WebClient AddHandler wClient.DownloadProgressChanged, AddressOf DownloadProgressChanged(ListView1.Items(textbox1.text)'HAVE THIS IN HERE' AddHandler wClient.DownloadStringCompleted, AddressOf DownloadStringCompleted(ListView1.Items(textbox1.text)'Have THIS IN
working in an intranet sit .downloadString took less than one second,but some times the server is down (maitenance or so on) and the the result took maybe one minute or so.Is there any way to set an lower interval?for example, if the server doesn't respond in 9 seconds return empty string, or so on.
I've read some about async comm but not sure what is the best solution.
I am scraping title of webpage. i am using webclient class to get its html source. the true title of webpage is this which apprear on browser "La rvolution" but when i extract it from html source using webclient class i get following string. "La rvolution du sourire juste"
I think its something related to string conversion. how to convert this "La rvolution du sourire juste" to "La rvolution"?
Following info on webpage might give you some clue which is content type. " <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />"
I have took a little research for the method to grab the html tag and input the textbox strings into the html page by using system.net.webclient and httpwebrequest, but I couldn't find the answer.o get the the method for system.net.webclient and httpwebrequest to grab the html page and input the strings into the php form?
I'm here again asking stupid questions. I don't have really get this but i ask again but i try explain all better. Here is a website link and i want catch string from here. Look page's source code and find first what starts <td> someword </td> I use this code for catch word from page. Visual Basic Express 2008
My program takes user input, replaces all spaces with "+", then inserts it into a search url for a specified web host. For example, the user enters:"How long is a foot?"
The generated URL (in this case I'm using dogpile.com) is:
I am getting an error with this Dim Web As New WebClient Web.Proxy = "69.196.16.237:62159" It says runtime errors may occur when converting string to System.Net.IWebProxy What does that mean?
its been a while since i've posted on the board..Well i got a problem and i stuck and i thought its time to use your knowledge.I want to make a program that its base code will do an automatic login to some of my sites i use and download the page raw source code to work with the results.
How limited time for method InstWebClient.DownloadString(PageAddress)?Sometimes my apps "stop executing" in line where execute InstWebClient.DownloadString method.
This 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).
I am working on a megaupload downloader and I can not take information from a string, that is this: <span class="down_txt2"> UltraMU.rar </ span> It would be the name of the file that I want to download. I tried with this
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEv entArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
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When I go to try it gives me the error and I can not fix it You could write the code to be able to take the name of the file, in this case "UltraMU.rar?
I am able to get ALL id's on the page but I wanted to be able to get this particular string of html <input autocomplete="off" type="password" tabindex="3" size="25" name="password" id="password" value="" onfocus="_helpOn('help__password')"
Here is my current Regex: id=.*". This get ALL the freaking Id's on the page. I've tried using regexr but it's not giving me any results. How I can get this to only show me: id="password"
