trying to get html from browser, not working

[hinchdog]

Does anyone see a problem with this code, cause it aint working. I'm trying to grad the html from a browser I opened a write it to a text file.

I have references to Internet Controls

Here it is.....

Set IE = New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
IE.Visible = False
IE.Navigate ("

http://www.someurl.com")

Dim doc, shl
Set doc = IE.Document

Dim fs, F, ts
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
fs.CreateTextFile "/windows/temp/parsein.tmp"
Set F = fs.GetFile("/windows/temp/parsein.tmp&quot
Set ts = F.OpenAsTextStream(2, -2)
ts.Write doc.documentElement.OutterHTML ***this isn't getting the html!!!!

 

[hinchdog]

http://www.pgacon.com/visualbasic.htm

 

[JohnYingling]

I use the Web Browser control which gives greater control but there are similarities.

IE.Visible = False
When I tried to run the Web Browser control (I know you are using IE)with Visible=false it stopped dead.

IE.Navigate ("

http://www.someurl.com";)

IE (and the WB CTL) runs asynchronously i.e. it does not wait for a page to load before returning control to you. If you were using the WB CTL, you would capture HTML in the DocumentComplete Event.

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[hinchdog]

that's great but i actually need to have the web browser hidden. i found this great code to do this using the wininet.dll here

http://www.pgacon.com/visualbasic.htm.

this works great for an .exe type project but i want to creat a .dll that pulls back html. i guess i could use the wininet.dll as is, but i don't know much about this. do you?

 

[JohnYingling]

Write a class with access to the winnet.exe ecapsulated in it.

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[hinchdog]

i don't know how to do that. could you quickly explain? i'm just getting started.

 

[JohnYingling]

There is no quickly explaining classes, ActiveX Dll, testing in standard exe etc. Besides I have not used the WinInet.DLL.

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[hinchdog]

another good link i found -

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=856

-da dog