Accessing a web page to parse its HTML

[RoadRacer]

This might be in the wrong forum but I'm trying anyways. How can I access another web site and put its HTML into a string for example? I'm thinking I might need to write a seperate object for this but before I go re-inventing the wheel, I wanted to know if there was something already out there. If not, how/where can I get the IE Type libraries to make this happen?

Thanks! Ed (RoadRacer) Holguin

"I Hate Computers!"

 

[shaddow]

U can Use Web Browser component and navigate to the specific adress and then save the page as html or text...
I give you the CLSID and the PROGID of the component...
Try to seek them in your registry:
CLSID : EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B
PROGID: InternetExplorer.Application
Hope this gives you ideeas... ________
George, M

 

[dnk]

if you're trying to do it programmatically rather than just one-time static grab, and you're not locked in to asp, there's a great library in the linux world -- CURL and libcurl provide programatic access to many internet protocols, including http. there's a good PHP driver for CURL. all is documented at the CURL site --

http://curl.haxx.se/

with CURL, you can programmatically request the contents of any .html page to be returned as a string which you can then process in whatever way you want.

its possible that there's a CURL driver available for IIS systems too, but my exposure to it has been on the linux side.

 

[RoadRacer]

Thanks shaddow. It seems that the WebBrowser component might be a little too much for what I'm trying to do ... but while looking for more info on the component, I came across the WinInet functions that seem to be the ticket to what I need ... now to get it to work is another task, hehe.

Anyone with experience in using WinInet out there?

*listens to the crickets chirp*
Ed (RoadRacer) Holguin

"I Hate Computers!"

 

[compweb]

I saw something that does that at

http://www.aspin.com

, it fetches a portion of a webpage and displays that portion on your page. Their demo was a portion of a Yahoo page. Do not know exactly where I saw it, maybe in componant section.

Mitch