How to display content from another web site

[perryair]

Hello All..
Do you know how to display content from another web site..?
I have the standrad code that display the entire page:

<%
Set objHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
objHTTP.Open "GET", "

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT&d=t",

false
objHTTP.Send
Response.Write objHTTP.ResponseText
%>

How can I pull only particular words or\and numbers?

Thanks.

 

[Hameedullah]

It really depends on what sort of details you want and also of the page layout.

....... why do you want to display content of another page. I am sure there is a better way of accessing those info.



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[perryair]

I would like to pull the following from the above link:

Last Trade: <%xxx%>
Change: <%xxx%>

Any idea?

 

[DotNetGnat]

perryair,

you are in the correct direction...here is the link with more detailed explanation...

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml

i think after getting the text file, then you can parse the text file for the desired data...

take a look at this link to see how to parse the text file:

http://www.learnasp.com/learn/mb2.asp

-DNG

 

[damber]

Many ways,...

You can use the DOM to navigate to the correct node and extract the informaiton.
--

http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp

You can use XPath if the HTML is wellformed XML.
--

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp

You can use string parsing to find information by index of a string in the document. Example:
--

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Article/A3E8CA89-9AA1-4C3B-BCC6-901C92A523E9.dcik

Or you could use a Regular Expression.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

Or you can do it the most professional, functional and robust way: by consuming a web service that provides stock quotes.

Here's the WSDL for Yahoo finance stock quote web service:

http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl

here is some other info:

http://www.webservicelist.com/webservices/f.asp?fid=37722

or:

http://www.webservicelist.com/webservices/f.asp?fid=37750

or:

http://www.webservicelist.com/webservices/f.asp?fid=74884

and more:

http://webreference.com/js/tips/020401.html

One thing to consider is that sites may change their HTML code, which could adversely affect your parsing methods.

Hope that helps

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