automating google results for pages

[dil0]

Hi,
I've been using VB6 primarily forwork with databases and parsing some texts and displaying dynamic web pages. I would like to know if there's a way to create a program with which I would input a number of web sites and it would chek online how many pages link to it and on what page on google it shows. I can do that manually on the google (typing link:%website% on google serch), but I have more than 100 sites and would like to automate this. Is there a way to achieve that. I need just a general guidance as to specific libraries, objects and methods I would need to create the prgram. Then I could do my research. Thank yu very much!

 

[VBakias]

You can load the google.com in a webbrowser.
Before this, open its source code and find the names/ids of the textfield and the search's button.
Then do smt like:
webbrowser1.document.all("textField's name/id").Value = YourTypeInText
webbrowser1.document.all("SearchButton's Name").Click, To raise this event

If you want the get i.e. the number of found pages, open the source code and find a specific tag in it. Refer to it and get it.

Hope this helps

 

[dil0]

I think I get it, but how do I access the webbrowser object? Do I need to add a module or something like that, to be able to work with the browser?

 

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[dil0]

thanx!