Reading data from a table on internett

[Kudel]

Hi!

I need to read data from a table on the internett. I do not know how, so any help or tip will be appreciated!

-Kudel

 

[DVirus]

you can try to catch whole page with FastNet's NMHTTP..
or you can use Socket connection and send
GET HTTP/1.x /page/address string to the socket,
then read the received result then parse it by yourself..
or you can use XML components for XML based pages..

 

[towerbase]

When you say 'table', do you mean a database table or do you mean an HTML table?

Andrew

 

[Kudel]

I nead to read a HTML table!

-Kudel

 

[towerbase]

The simplest way to get a web page is to use the function URLDownloadToFile. This is much easier to use than ICS or NetMaster components.

You will need to add UrlMon to your uses clause. Your code should look something like:

uses UrlMon;
...
  url := '[URL unfurl="true"]www.website\pages\wanted.html';[/URL]
  filename := 'C:\webpage.txt';
  URLDownloadToFile ( nil, url, filename, 0, nil );
...

This copies the HTML from the web page to the file specified in filename.

I presume you know how to parse the HTML file to get the data in the table that you want. I would use the Parse function in the excellent (free) HyperString library.

Andrew