Html - VB Basic RegEx - Save Value From An Input Tag In HTML Source Code
Feb 16, 2011
I am trying save a value from an input tag in some HTML source code. The tag looks like so:
<input name="user_status" value="3" />
I have the page source in a variable (pageSourceCode), and need to work out some regex to get the value (3 in this example). I have this so far: [Code] Which works fine most of the time, however this code is used to process source code from multiple sites (that use the same platform), and sometimes there are other attributes included in the input tag, or they are in a different order, eg:
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>
[Code]...
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?
I am trying to extract everything between the body part as I am building a forum crawler and since all the user posts are between the <body></body> I have chosen to experiment with Regex. So far I have coded the following but sort of stuck on how to output the result say in a textbox? Also I am not sure if the body part of the regex is correct.
Dim URL As String = Textbox1.Text Dim request As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("URL") Dim response As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse Dim streamReader As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()) [Code] .....
what i am trying to do is extract information beween two tags in some html from the source of a website. The contents of the text between the two tags will always be different. the code i currently have is;
Way to space out the source code of a web page, having each tag on one line, without having to search for each tag ending and then making a new line after.
<br/><span class=""synopsis-view-synopsis"">America's justice system comes under indictment in director <a href='/people/1035' class='actor' style='font-weight:bold'>Norman Jewison</a>'s trenchant film starring <a href='/people/1028'
I am trying to build my own website and realized that it would be a big help to also create my own vb program to enable me to embed tags with simple clicks of buttons. I am having trouble getting my vb code to be compatible with html code (I keep getting vb syntax errors).
Here is what I've tried:
<strong>'Inside of a button:Textbox1.text = "<html tag example></html tag example>"</strong>
I have to submit a HTML form to a 3rd party website and one of the hidden fields is an XML string. The XML needs escaping before it is sent to the 3rd party.
However when I add the plain XML to the form field it semi-escapes it for me. So then when I use HTMLEncode myself part of the XML is double-escaped. How do I prevent the automatic escaping that appears to becoming from .NET.
Or even better how else can send the escaped XML via the hidden field.
How to get source/HTML code of the web page that is shown in WebBrowser1 when I click a button? I would like it to be written in Notepad or eventually in new form..
I'm writing a program in VB.net that gets the source code of a web page with a video on it. it then uses regular expressions to isolate the download link of that video. then it uses "httpwebrequest" and "httpwebresponse" to download the video. my problem arises when certain sites have a page where you have to click continue in order to get to the video page. [URL].. called "The.Matrix.Reloaded.2003.mp4" so i tell my program to get the source code for the url [URL]..but it cant find the video's download link because it's searching for the file in the "continue" page's source code. you can see what i am saying by going to that website above and viewing the source code by right clicking on it. and then click continue and do the same when the video appears and you'll notice that the file is only there in the second one.
So my question is how can i get the source code for the page that the video is playing on and not the page where i have to click continue?
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted Dim PageElements As HtmlElement = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("rso") TextBox2.Text = TextBox2.Text & PageElements.InnerText & Environment.NewLine End Sub
I am working on this project and I am getting confused. I have my basic Html editor. Now I am suppose to allow the user to load an HTML file(source code only from the internet, when the user selects this feature provide a textbox and button to enter the URL. I have no clue how to do this. I been looking online and I am not finding anything it is not in my book either .[code]...
I need to find .MP3 format URLS in a HTML source code.So how could i do that?Lets say i have:
Dim wcClient As New System.Net.WebClient Dim data As System.IO.Stream = wcClient.OpenRead(inbox.ToString) Dim reader As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(data) reader = reader.ReadToEnd() reader.Close()
so how could i find all the .MP3 urls which are in the source code?
I've found some examples using RegEx but im not really sure how to use the RegEx pattern to find MP3 urls in the source code.
I want to get the links and images from an html code using the htmlDocument class available through webBrowser.So I retrieved and assigned the html code to the webBrowser trying each one of this 3
I'm trying to get the HTML from a frame in a website which is loaded into a WebBrowser in my application.
I have this WebBrowser so that the user can login easily by putting the username and password on the login form of the page so that i can get the HTML code from the protected page.
However, i have to read the frame code while the WebBrowser being on the main page because if i enter the frame, it redirects me to the main page again so there is no way of reading the frame code by entering it.
So i don't know how to read the frame HTML code of a website[url]...
I want to read a specific line from an html source code. Im storing the source into a string file and i want to read the line X.So im using this method that i found on net
Public Shared Function ReadSpecifiedLine(file As String, lineNum As Integer) As String Dim contents As String = String.Empty Try Using stream As New StreamReader(file)
I need to extract some info of a HTML source code and put it in a textbox...i treid a lot of things and even the best idea's crasht what i got this far is :
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("value_wood").SetAttribute(TextBox3.Text, "class") End Sub
I am trying to get source code from a webpage. Webbrowser control is giving me the required information that I am looking for. But I want to use httpwebrequest but its giving me different source than webbrowser documenttext.
[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
how to replace the html code numbers with the correct ones? i would show you example of html output, but vbforum automatically converts the characters so no point. i wish the replace all the & #40; (without the space) and so on with their correct replacement eg, ( in this case. also would like a short way to do this as i will be using this multiple times. so basically i would like the source to be exactly as it would if you viewed source in firefox browser, not with all the special chars unformatted like visual studio does.
I have tried a few things like converting HTML to XML and then using an XML navigator to get input elements but I get lost whenever I start this process.What I am trying to do is to navigate to a website which will be loaded using textbox1.text.Then download the html and parse out the input elements like . username, password, etc and place the element by type (id or name) into the richtextbox with the attribute beside the name.[code]Any clues or how to properly execute an HTML to XML conveter, reader, parser?
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).
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient() Dim p As New System.Net.WebProxy() Dim test As String wc.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8") p.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials wc.Proxy = p
How would I use Regex to extract the body from a html doc,taking into account that the html and body tags might be in uppercase, lowercase or might not exist?
