Retrieve URL And Then Parse The HTML From The Page?
Mar 27, 2009
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.
In 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.
I'm coding an ASP.NET page, with VB code behind. When the user clicks a button on the page, I send them an email with information and instructions. Rather than sending a plain text email, I send a nice, pretty, HTML-formatted one. Right now, I'm doing this in a way that I KNOW will be difficult to maintain. That is, I'm straight up writing out all of the html. [code]...
I just want to parse simple expressions like IIF(FVAL(PFC) = TRUE, (IIF((ORGVAL(BAS, "2012/12/31") + ORGVAL(DA)) < 6500, (FVAL(BAS) + FVAL(DA)) * 12%, 780)), 0)`After parsing this I should be able to know what functions contains what parameters.
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I'm stuck with .Net Framework 2.0, so no Linq or lambda expression goodies for me. Also I want to include the code in my custom library and not just reference it. Can anyone point me to some good library or code.
I just need to parse and not evaluate the expression and find what tokens are in use. After finding the tokens I need to change the expression string before parsing, like if the function ORGVAL is used then the parameter passed has has to be prefixed by an underscore. Like ORGVAL(BAS) will transform to ORGVAL(_BAS). Some functions can have tow parameters like ORGVAL(BAS, "2012/12/31") and this will transform to ORGVAL(_BAS, "2012/12/31")
NOTE: IF THERE ARE OTHER WAYS OF DOING IT PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I WOULD LOVE TO AVOID A PARSER AND LEXER.
I have a normal winform and I would like to know is there any possibility to generate a html page and to add a css file to the html page from the local folder.
In order for my program to share information between users, the best method I could come up with is using e-mails.I have a way of sending e-mails with the appropriate attachments, but would love a way to automatically retrieve these e-mail attachments directly from the program, without the user having to go to their e-mail account, find the correct project e-mail, download the attachment and then put it in the correct folder.I had hoped that VB.Net would have a built in procedure for doing this, but it seems there's not really anything there.
Is is possible to retrieve the ID value from the Request.QueryString from a aspx file and pass it onto a ascx file in order to successfully update a profile using the retrieved ID?
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?).
i am retrieving a iMAGE Extension variable string. for example: test.case-function.two.jpg and want to return the end '.JPG' portion only. so i can add to another variable value. Note the .JPG substring could be other Extension types such as PJPEG ect
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.
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.
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.
Was 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:
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?
I 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
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
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.
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?
ive looked on google im not sure if im looking for the right thing as im kind of new to this type of thing, basicly i just want to print some text in to a label thats located beweteen a link on a web page the html is as follows:
again after a week of trying to figure out how to parse a HTML table I have yet to figure it out.Below is the Table I am trying to get the information out of.
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The problem I am having is that It pulls out the 28,900 fine but I need to pull the rest of the information IE the 23,132 and the 170,000 and they will get placed into other Labels. Now they are not Static numbers they change all the time to higher or lower lumbers.
Part of my project is to retrieve a string variable from an external source (google docs) and parse it. This string represents width and height. I have no problem retrieving, I just need to parse it in to two strings. The string has 4 variations.
Here are examples: 3"x4" 3"hx4"w 3hx4w 3x4
The width is always the first number and the height is always the second. Sometimes, the width and height have decimal points. Any way to parse this into two strings of the numeric values only?
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 have fetched the html page and stored it as a string and now wish to parse it. I tried the following but I cannot get all the text between the following tags.
<entry...</entry> If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(_html) Then 'get all href tags in the html page